Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Winston Churchill quotes

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

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• I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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• Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

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• Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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• Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required.

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

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• From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

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• We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

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• There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

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

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

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• We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

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

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.

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

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• Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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

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• Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill

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• The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

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• We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

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• Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.

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

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• To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

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• Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.

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• I think 'No Comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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

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• When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

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

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

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• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

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• We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

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• We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward cross the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

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• It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

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• Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

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• I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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• Meeting Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne.

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

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

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• Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monst

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• Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

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• Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path.

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

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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• If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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• We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls

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• You create your own universe as you go along.

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• The most important thing about education is appetite.

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

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• If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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• There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

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

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

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• Never, never, never give in!

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

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

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• 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. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

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