Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (1874-11-30 – 1965-01-24) was a British politician. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.

Found 147 thoughts of Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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

Never, never, never, never give up.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

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

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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

In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.

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