Here are 30 Winston Churchill Quotes of Wisdom and Challenges. These quotes reflect Churchill’s wit, wisdom, and leadership during challenging times:
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Attributed
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Attributed
- “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Speech, House of Commons, June 23, 1925
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Attributed
- “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Attributed
- “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” – Attributed
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Attributed
- “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Attributed
- “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Attributed
- “Never, never, never give up.” – Speech, Harrow School, October 29, 1941
- “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Speech, House of Commons, June 12, 1943
- “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Attributed
- “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” – Attributed
- “Success always demands a greater effort.” – Attributed
- “Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Attributed
- “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” – Attributed
- “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” – Attributed
- “In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” – Speech, 1952
- “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” – Attributed
- “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” – Speech, House of Commons, October 28, 1943
- “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” – Attributed
- “A joke is a very serious thing.” – Attributed
- “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.” – Attributed
- “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” – Attributed
- “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” – Speech, Harvard University, September 6, 1943
- “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” – Attributed
- “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Speech, House of Commons, October 22, 1945
- “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” – Speech, October 22, 1945
- “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” – Speech, November 4, 1952
- “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Attributed