Winston Churchill Quotes

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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

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.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.