Quotes from Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

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

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.