Inspiring Quotes by Winston Churchill - Page 2

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"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure"

"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar"

"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it"

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse"

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out"

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is"

"The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all"

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived"

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us"

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all"

"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk"

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen"

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others"

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business"

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself"

"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft"

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me"

"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns"

"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words"

"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat"

"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement"

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him"

"A joke is a very serious thing"

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English"

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place"

"History is written by the victors"

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"

"The first quality that is needed is audacity"

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have"

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war"

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times"

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong"

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result"

"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time"

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization"

"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning"

"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult"

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival"

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information"

"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent"

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"

"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years"

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