Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.”

— Winston Churchill

102. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

104. “Islam to a man is like rabies to a dog.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

108. “To improve is to change.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

110. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

114. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

127. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

134. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

138. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

142. “Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

144. “Without victory there is no survival!”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

146. “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

— Winston Churchill

147. “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

148. “I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.”

— Winston Churchill

149. “There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission – a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.”

— Winston Churchill

150. “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