Winston Churchill Quotes About Leadership
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.
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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.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
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What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.
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Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.
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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.
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The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.
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Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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