Winston Churchill Quotes About Adversity

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Success, Uplifting

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Kindness, Cancer

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

• If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Office, Feelings

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

• We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Fighting, Dark

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

• Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Government, World

  "The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940".

• Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Men, Giving

• I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Broken, Darkness

• Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Gentleman, Enterprise

• It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Looks, Lines

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

• I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Adversity, Safe

• When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Thinking, Weakness

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

• You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

  Winston Churchill

  Good Luck, Adversity, May

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

• You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, War, Adversity

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

• I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Drunk, Gutters

• God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Too Late, Know How

  Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

• I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Years, Wish

• Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Looks, Path

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.141, A&C Black

• I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Adversity, Fire

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

• There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Issues, Doubt

• Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Adversity, Hazards

  Winston Churchill (2013). “London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March”, p.152, Courier Corporation

• Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Trends, Horrible

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