Winston Churchill’s Iconic Quotes – A Glimpse into the Mind of a Legend

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

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

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

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Never, never, never give up.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

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.

Winston Churchill’s Iconic Quotes – A Glimpse into the Mind of a Legend part 2

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

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

Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision.

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.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

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.

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

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

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall