Quotes from Winston Churchill

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force.. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

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.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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.

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

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

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

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

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.