List Of 50 Winston Churchill Quotes About Life & Leadership:
#1 “It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
#2 “They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you, practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.”
#3 “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
#4 “To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
#5 “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
#6 “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
#7 “Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”
#8 “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
#9 “I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
#10 “Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
#11 “Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
#12 “You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.”
#13 “Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
#14 “Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
#15 “The most important thing about education is appetite.”
#16 “You create your own universe as you go along.”
#17 “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.”
#18 “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened, and maintained.”
#19 “A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
#20 “When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
#21 “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
#22 “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.”
#23 “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.”
#24 “Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
#25 “Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
#26 “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.”
#27 “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”
#28 “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.”
#29 “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop.”
#30 “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
#31 “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
#32 “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
#33 “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
#34 “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
#35 “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
#36 “Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.”
#37 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
#38 “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
#39 “Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
#40 “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
#41 “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
#42 “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
#43 “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
#44 “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
#45 “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
#46 “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
#47 “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
#48 “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
#49 “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
#50 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”