Winston Churchill Quotes About Life
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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.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
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There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.
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Keep calm and carry on.
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How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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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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We get to make a living; we give to make a life.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.
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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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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 honor and good sense.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
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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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If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
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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
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One ought to be just before one is generous
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
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If you find something you really love, you will never work again.
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A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
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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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