Winston Churchill Quotes About Defeat

• 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 Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

• In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Victory And Defeat

  "Marlborough; his life and times".

• In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

  Winston Churchill

  Needs, Defeat, Champagne

• Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Twilight, Victory

• The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory And Defeat, Problem

  Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

• Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Finals, Defeat

• 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

• Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Defeat, Dear

  Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

• In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Unbearable, Defeat

• The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Coaching, Definitions, Enthusiasm

• Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Defeat

  The Second World War vol. 4 (1951)

• He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Victory

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

• The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

  Winston Churchill

  Loss, Feelings, Finals

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Answers, Defeat

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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