Winston Churchill Inspirational Quotations

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

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

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

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

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

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

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.

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

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

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

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

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

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