Winston Churchill Life Quotations

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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

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

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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

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

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

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

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

If we can stand up to Hitler, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

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

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

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.

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.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

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

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

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

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

Keep calm and carry on.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.