"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."
— Winston S. Churchill

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
— Winston S. Churchill

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

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

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
— Winston S. Churchill

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Lady Astor to Winston Churchill—
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."

His reply—
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
— Winston S. Churchill

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."
— Winston S. Churchill

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.'"
— Winston S. Churchill

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
— Winston S. Churchill

"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."
— Winston S. Churchill (Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches)

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. "
— Winston S. Churchill

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."
— Winston S. Churchill

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
— Winston S. Churchill

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
— Winston S. Churchill

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
— Winston S. Churchill

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
— Winston S. Churchill

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
— Winston S. Churchill

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
— Winston S. Churchill

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
— Winston S. Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility. "
— Winston S. Churchill

"We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
— Winston S. Churchill

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
— Winston S. Churchill

"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 S. Churchill (Their Finest Hour)

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.""
— Winston S. Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
— Winston S. Churchill

"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 S. Churchill

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
— Winston S. Churchill

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result."
— Winston S. Churchill

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
— Winston S. Churchill

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
— Winston S. Churchill

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"
— Winston S. Churchill

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
— Winston S. Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
— Winston S. Churchill