Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Winston Churchill

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2. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

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3. “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible , and achieves the impossible.”

— Winston Churchill

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4. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

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5. “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

— Winston Churchill

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6. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

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7. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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9. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

— Winston Churchill

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10. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”

— Winston Churchill

11. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

12. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”

— Winston Churchill

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13. “A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”

— Winston Churchill

14. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

— Winston Churchill

15. “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

— Winston Churchill

16. “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

— Winston Churchill

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17. “He who fails to plan is planning to fail.”

— Winston Churchill

18. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

19. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

— Winston Churchill

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20. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

21. “Never, never, never give in!”

— Winston Churchill

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22. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

— Winston Churchill

23. “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

24. “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”

— Winston Churchill

25. “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”

— Winston Churchill

26. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

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27. “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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29. “We shall never surrender.”

— Winston Churchill

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30. “If you find a job you love, you’ll never work again...”

— Winston Churchill

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31. “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 honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

— Winston Churchill

32. “Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

— Winston Churchill

33. “Keep calm and carry on.”

— Winston Churchill

34. “Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”

— Winston Churchill

35. “When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

— Winston Churchill

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36. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

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37. “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

— Winston Churchill

38. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

— Winston Churchill

39. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

— Winston Churchill

40. “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”

— Winston Churchill

41. “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

42. “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

— Winston Churchill

43. “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”

— Winston Churchill

44. “If you don’t take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.”

— Winston Churchill

45. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

— Winston Churchill

46. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

— Winston Churchill

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47. “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 Churchill

48. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

— Winston Churchill

49. “You create your own universe as you go along.”

— Winston Churchill

50. “I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.”

— Winston Churchill