Monday 24 March 2014

Winston Churchill Quotes

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  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
    ~
    Winston Churchill



  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.





  • Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       If you're going through hell, keep going.~Winston Churchill





  • ·         A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Never, never, never give up.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.~Winston Churchill




  • ·         It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·          There is no such thing as a good tax.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
    ~Winston Churchill






  • ·         Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
    ~Winston Churchill





  • ·         The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The price of greatness is responsibility.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.~Winston Churchill




  • ·         It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.~Winston Churchill




  • ·         If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         A joke is a very serious thing.
    ~Winston Churchill





  • ·         Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         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.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         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.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       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.
    ~Winston Churchill








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