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Winston Churchill

41 quotes

Selected quotes · 41
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston ChurchillCourage
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillFreedom
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston ChurchillCreativity
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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 ChurchillSelf-belief
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillSuccess
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillGrowth
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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.
Winston ChurchillCourage
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It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Winston ChurchillTime
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillCourage
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston ChurchillAction
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston ChurchillTime
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston ChurchillCreativity
13
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston ChurchillNature
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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.
Winston ChurchillLife
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston ChurchillCreativity
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Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillFailure
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston ChurchillSuccess
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston ChurchillAction
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston ChurchillSuccess
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston ChurchillAction
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston ChurchillFreedom
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston ChurchillLife
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston ChurchillSuccess
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston ChurchillLife
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston ChurchillWisdom
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History is written by the victors.
Winston ChurchillWisdom
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston ChurchillJustice
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Winston ChurchillNature
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston ChurchillJustice
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston ChurchillWisdom
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillFailure
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston ChurchillMindset
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston ChurchillWisdom
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston ChurchillGrowth
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston ChurchillMindset
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston ChurchillWisdom
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If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston ChurchillResilience
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Winston ChurchillCreativity
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Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston ChurchillTime
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston ChurchillTime
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillFailure