Winston Churchill Quotes About Life

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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 consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational
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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

• 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

• It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Success

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

• 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 Churchill

  Life, Depressing, Funny Inspirational

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Witty

  "Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchil"l, Students' Academy, Lulu Press, Section Three, 2014.

• 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.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Religious, Lying

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.516, Da Capo Press

• Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Night, Firsts

  "Sticks, stones and custard" by Ariane Sherine, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2009.

• If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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

• There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Public Opinion

• We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Generosity

• A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Sarcastic, Humility

• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  The Malakand Field Force ch. 10 (1898)

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

• Keep calm and carry on.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Calm, Keep Calm And Carry On

• These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Country, Dark

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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