Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.”

— Winston Churchill

102. “The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.”

— Winston Churchill

103. “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 Churchill

104. “The unforgivable sin of Hitler’s Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.”

— Winston Churchill

105. “One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.”

— Winston Churchill

106. “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”

— Winston Churchill

107. “Life is a test and this world a place of trial.”

— Winston Churchill

108. “To improve is to change.”

— Winston Churchill

109. “This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”

— Winston Churchill

110. “A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”

— Winston Churchill

111. “You can measure a man’s character by the choices he makes under pressure.”

— Winston Churchill

112. “We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.”

— Winston Churchill

113. “It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.”

— Winston Churchill

114. “The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.”

— Winston Churchill

115. “Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.”

— Winston Churchill

116. “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”

— Winston Churchill

117. “If I had my way, I would write the word ‘insure’ over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.”

— Winston Churchill

118. “The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.”

— Winston Churchill

119. “Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.”

— Winston Churchill

120. “If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

— Winston Churchill

121. “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

— Winston Churchill

122. “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

— Winston Churchill

123. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”

— Winston Churchill

124. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.”

— Winston Churchill

125. “No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.”

— Winston Churchill

126. “I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.”

— Winston Churchill

127. “Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.”

— Winston Churchill

128. “Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.”

— Winston Churchill

129. “You must look at facts, because they look at you.”

— Winston Churchill

130. “I’m too busy. I have no time for worry.”

— Winston Churchill

131. “There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.”

— Winston Churchill

132. “If you don’t have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.”

— Winston Churchill

133. “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

— Winston Churchill

134. “Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

— Winston Churchill

135. “Without victory there is no survival!”

— Winston Churchill

136. “We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.”

— Winston Churchill

137. “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”

— Winston Churchill

138. “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

— Winston Churchill

139. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

— Winston Churchill

140. “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

— Winston Churchill

141. “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

— Winston Churchill

142. “I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don’t apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.”

— Winston Churchill

143. “You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.”

— Winston Churchill

144. “If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.”

— Winston Churchill

145. “You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”

— Winston Churchill

146. “It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

— Winston Churchill

147. “The cemetery is full of indispensable people.”

— Winston Churchill

148. “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

149. “Success always demands a greater effort.”

— Winston Churchill

150. “Old men make war, young men fight and die.”

— Winston Churchill