62 Famous Winston Churchill Quotes

62 Famous Winston Churchill Quotes

Last updated on October 7th, 2021 at 11:02 am

โ€œWinston Churchill speaking at Epping during General Election campaign, October 1924โ€œ, by Levan Ramishvili, licensed under Public domain

Winston Churchill was a famous British Politician and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He is perhaps most well known for his pivotal role in the fight against the Nazis during the Second World War and the subsequent defeat of the Germans.

Through his long political career we can take many words attributed to Winston Churchill for inspiration and use in our everyday lives. Here at Turtle Quote we have compiled the most Famous Winston Churchill Quotes.

Famous Winston Churchill Quotes

โ€œIf you are going through hell, keep going.โ€

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โ€œIโ€™m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.โ€

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โ€œHistory will be kind to me for I intend to write it.โ€

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โ€œMy tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.โ€

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โ€œSuccess is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.โ€

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โ€œYou have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.โ€

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โ€œContinuous effort โ€“ not strength or intelligence โ€“ is the key to unlocking our potential.โ€

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โ€œThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.โ€

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โ€œSuccess is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.โ€

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โ€œIt is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.โ€

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โ€œTact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.โ€

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โ€œKites rise highest against the wind, not with it.โ€

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Inspirational Winston Churchill Quotes

โ€œFor myself I am an optimist โ€“ it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.โ€

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โ€œThe greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.โ€

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โ€œWe make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.โ€

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โ€œThe price of greatness is responsibility.โ€

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โ€œAttitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.โ€

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โ€œTo improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.โ€

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โ€œA good speech should be like a womanโ€™s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.โ€

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โ€œWe are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.โ€

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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.โ€

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โ€œYou will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.โ€

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โ€œAll the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.โ€

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โ€œIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.โ€

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Thought Provoking Winston Churchill Quotes

โ€œA fanatic is one who canโ€™t change his mind and wonโ€™t change the subject.โ€

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โ€œAn appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.โ€

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โ€œDemocracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.โ€

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โ€œWhen the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.โ€

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โ€œIn 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.โ€

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โ€œHealthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.โ€

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โ€œWhen there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.โ€

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โ€œThe truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.โ€

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โ€œWhen you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.โ€

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โ€œHowever beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.โ€

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โ€œNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.โ€

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โ€œIt is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.โ€

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โ€œI have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.โ€

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โ€œDifficulties mastered are opportunities won.โ€

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โ€œA love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.โ€

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Famous Winston Churchill Quotes on Leadership and Success

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.โ€

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โ€œStudy history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.โ€

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โ€œGive us the tools, and we will finish the job.โ€ย 

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โ€œAll wisdom is not new wisdom.โ€ย 

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โ€œIf we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.โ€ย 

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โ€œPolitics is not a game. It is an earnest business.โ€

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โ€œWar never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.โ€

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โ€œThe pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.โ€

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Our Favorite Winston Churchill Quotes

โ€œWe are still masters of our fate, we are still captains of our souls.โ€

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โ€œA small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.โ€

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โ€œThe most important thing about education is appetite.โ€

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โ€œGood and great are seldom in the same man. โ€

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โ€œLife is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.โ€

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โ€œEvils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.โ€

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โ€œNationalization of industry is the doom of trade unionism.โ€

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โ€œIf you destroy a free market you create a black market.โ€ย 

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โ€œThe English never draw a line without blurring it.โ€ย 

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โ€œOne ought to be just before one is generous.โ€

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โ€œVengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.โ€

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โ€œTime and money are largely interchangeable terms.โ€ย 

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โ€œYou must look at facts because they look at you.โ€

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โ€œHarsh laws are at times better than no laws at all.โ€ย 

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โ€œNothing makes a man more reverent than a library.โ€ย 

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We hope that you enjoyed our selection ofย Famous Winston Churchill Quotes. If you did, then perhaps you may also like our collection of quotes by George Washington!

Some Interesting Facts About Winston Churchill!

Winston Churchill was half British and half American, and he was the first person ever to be presented with honorary citizenship of the United States. He was in the British parliament for more than 55 years and served under six monarchs like Victoria, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II.

Churchill became an accomplished artist in his 40s and created more than 500 paintings. He also won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 and became the only British Prime Minister to win this prestigious award since its inception. He became the only prime minister to enter the music charts for his collection of famous speeches in 1965 after his death. Winston Churchill was the only statesman who was commemorated on British coins twice.

Not many are aware that he also had a speech impediment which made it difficult to pronounce the letter โ€˜sโ€™. His fluent and extraordinary oratory skills never let anyone knew or feel about such an issue. It is also said that Churchill invented few words, for example, โ€˜summitโ€™ in 1950, etc.

If you enjoyed reading these facts about Winston Churchill, then you should also check out these 8 Amazing Fun Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Wonโ€™t Learn In School!

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