Winston Churchill Quotes About Leadership

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• 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.

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Witty, Party

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books
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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life
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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving Forward, Patriotism

• Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

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

• It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Purpose, Wonderful

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

• The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Vision, Looks

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

• Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving, Inspiration

• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Pain, Growth

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Believe

• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful

• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Life, Leadership

  Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Dictator, Socialism

  Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.292, A&C Black

• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

• What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Adequacy, Standards

  Winston Churchill (1966). “Churchill in His Own Words: Years of Greatness, Memorable Speeches of the Man of the Century”

• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Mistake, False Hope

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, War, Men

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

• Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Jobs, Military

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

• We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Engineering, Shapes

  "The Best-laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future". Book by Randal O'Toole, p. 161, 2007.

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