Winston Churchill Quotes

Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

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 hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated" why not "ready-made"?

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

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

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

The future though imminent is obscure.

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals.

If you're going through hell, keep going