Winston Churchill Famous Quotations

Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) was a British politician known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He was a statesman, an orator, an officer in the British Army, an historian, a Nobel Prize-winning writer, and an artist. These famous quotes dealing with goals, achievement, and success have been attributed to him.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Never, never, never give up.w
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.