67 Winston Churchill Quotes (Being Resiliant)

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Best Quotes from Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill on Courage and Determination
Winston Churchill Inspirational Quotes
More Quotes from Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Biography

Best Quotes from Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill (Success 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. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Winston Churchill (Also listed on our Famous Motivational Quotes Page)

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

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. 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.’ Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill paying tribute to the Royal Air Force August 1940

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill (also appears on our Optimism Quotes Page)

You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs – Victory in spite of all terrors – Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill on Courage and Determination

. . . we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender! 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 is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. 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

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

If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Inspirational Quotes

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

The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. Winston Churchill

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

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill Quotes

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

One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather. Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction. Winston Churchill (see our quotes about worry section)

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

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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill

More Quotes from Sir Winston Churchill

My tastes are simple. I am easily satisfied with the best. Winston Churchill

Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries. Winston Churchill

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

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. Winston Churchill

The only way someone can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose. Winston Churchill

Biography

Churchill is best remembered for leading Britain through World War Two. He is famous for his inspiring speeches, and for never ever giving in. Churchill’s refusal to surrender to Nazi Germany inspired the country. Many people consider him the most famous British prime minister and regard him as a hero.

Although Brits regard him as a hero, Churchill was not a perfect leader and did have his fair share of takes and stances that were not regarded by all.

Winston Churchill was born on 30 November 1874, in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, and lived until his death in London on 24 January 1965.

He became a Member of Parliament in 1900.

He was British prime minister from 1940-1945 and also between 1951 and 1955.

Sir Winston Churchill was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.”