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However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Related topics: Cynical Success Demotivational
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
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
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill
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
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- 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
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
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