130 Winston Churchill Quotes to Inspire You

Sir Winston Churchill was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Winston Churchill  is best remembered for successfully leading Britain through World War Two. He is also famous for his inspiring speeches, and for his refusal to give in, even when things were going badly. Winston Churchill has tons of inspirational quotes against his name. His legacy, as well as his famous quotes, still live on today. Here are the best Winston Churchill Quotes to inspire you.

Winston Churchill Quotes

1. “I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.” ~ Winston Churchill

2. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

3. “Never, never, never give up.” ~ Winston Churchill

4. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill

5. “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.” ~ Winston Churchill

6. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, something in your life.” ~  Winston Churchill

7. “Harsh laws are at times better than no laws at all.” ~ Winston Churchill
8. “Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.” ~ Winston Churchill
9. “It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.” ~ Winston Churchill
10. “All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.” ~ Winston Churchill

Quotes by Winston Churchill

11. “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” ~ Winston Churchill
12. “Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” ~ Winston Churchill
13. “All wisdom is not new wisdom.” ~ Winston Churchill
14. “Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.” ~ Winston Churchill
15. “If you destroy a free market you create a black market.” ~ Winston Churchill
16. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill
17. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ~  Winston Churchill
18. “You cannot cure cancer by a majority.” ~ Winston Churchill
19. “If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.” ~ Winston Churchill
20. “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” ~ Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Famous Quotes

21. “We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.” ~ Winston Churchill
22. “We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.” ~ Winston Churchill
23. “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” ~ Winston Churchill
24. “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” ~ Winston Churchill
25. “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.” ~ Winston Churchill
26. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~ Winston Churchill
27. “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
28. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
29. “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.” ~ Winston Churchill
30. “War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.” ~ Winston Churchill

Dynamic Winston Churchill Quotes

31. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” ~ Winston Churchill
32. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” ~ Winston Churchill
33. “Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.” ~ Winston Churchill
34. “You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.” ~ Winston Churchill
35. “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.” ~ Winston Churchill
36. “The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.” ~ Winston Churchill
37. “One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.” ~ Winston Churchill
38. “There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” ~ Winston Churchill
39. “You must look at facts because they look at you.” ~ Winston Churchill
40. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” ~ Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes

41. “We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another.” ~ Winston Churchill
42. “Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.” ~ Winston Churchill
43. “To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.” ~ Winston Churchill
44. “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~ Winston Churchill
45. “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” ~ Winston Churchill
46. “In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.” ~ Winston Churchill
47. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” ~ Winston Churchill
48. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” ~ Winston Churchill
49. “One ought to be just before one is generous.” ~ Winston Churchill
50. “Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.” ~ Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Motivational Quotes

51. “To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” ~ Winston Churchill
52. “It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.” ~ Winston Churchill
53. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ~ Winston Churchill
54. “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
55. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.” ~ Winston Churchill
56. “Craft is common both to skill and deceit.” ~ Winston Churchill
57. “In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.” ~ Winston Churchill
58. “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” ~ Winston Churchill
59. “Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.” ~ Winston Churchill
60. “Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.” ~ Winston Churchill

Inspiring Winston Churchill Quotes

61. “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.” ~ Winston Churchill
62. “Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.” ~ Winston Churchill
63. “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” ~ Winston Churchill
64. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
65. “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.” ~ Winston Churchill
66. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
67. “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.” ~ Winston Churchill
68. “The true guide of life is to do what is right.” ~ Winston Churchill
69. “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” ~ Winston Churchill
70. “You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.” ~ Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes

71. “You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.” ~ Winston Churchill
72. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” ~ Winston Churchill
73. “Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” ~ Winston Churchill
74. “Time and money are largely interchangeable terms.” ~ Winston Churchill
75. “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.” ~ Winston Churchill
76. “The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.” ~ Winston Churchill
77. “Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.” ~ Winston Churchill
78. “I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.” ~ Winston Churchill
79. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ~ Winston Churchill
80. “I may be drunk Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” ~ Winston Churchill

Winston S. Churchill Quotes

81. “I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity.” ~ Winston Churchill
82. “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. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.” ~ Winston Churchill
83. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” ~ Winston Churchill
84. “We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.” ~ Winston Churchill
85. “The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.” ~ Winston Churchill
86. “The English never draw a line without blurring it.” ~ Winston Churchill
87. “What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.” ~ Winston Churchill
88. “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
89. “It is the time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
90. “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future.” ~ Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Quotes

91. “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
92. “It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.” ~ Winston Churchill
93. “I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.” ~ Winston Churchill
94. “Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” ~ Winston Churchill
95. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” ~ Winston Churchill
96. “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
97. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” ~ Winston Churchill
98. “I’m prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” ~ Winston Churchill
99. “Great and good are seldom the same man.” ~ Winston Churchill
100. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” ~ Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

101. “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” ~ Winston Churchill
102. “When you are in doubt what to do, do nothing… When you are in doubt what to say, say what you really think.” ~ Winston Churchill
103. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ~ Winston Churchill
104. “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” ~ Winston Churchill
105. “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” ~ Winston Churchill
106. “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
107. “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” ~ Winston Churchill
108. “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” ~ Winston Churchill
109. “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” ~ Winston Churchill
110. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” ~ Winston Churchill

Churchill Quotes

111. “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” ~ Winston Churchill
112. “No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.” ~ Winston Churchill
113. “This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.” ~ Winston Churchill
114. “Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.” ~ Winston Churchill
115. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” ~ Winston Churchill
116. “It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” ~ Winston Churchill
117. “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
118. “We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” ~ Winston Churchill
119. “No crime is so great as daring to excel.” ~ Winston Churchill
120. “It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.” ~ Winston Churchill
121. “Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.” ~ Winston Churchill
122. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
123. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” ~ Winston Churchill
124. “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” ~ Winston Churchill
125. “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” ~ Winston Churchill
126. “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?” ~ Winston Churchill
127. “You create your own universe as you go along.” ~ Winston Churchill
128. “Don’t argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.” ~ Winston Churchill
129. “A joke is a very serious thing.” ~ Winston Churchill
130. “Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlock your potential.” ~ Winston Churchill

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