101+ Famous Quotes From Winston Churchill That Will Change Your Mindset Completely

Do you want to develop leadership skills? Winston Churchill Quotes are helpful for you.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a true patriot and leader who played a vital role in the survival of the United Kingdom during World War II. He is remembered as a victorious wartime leader who defended the democracy of Europe against the spread of fascism.

Sir Winston Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 in Blenheim, United Kingdom. His father Lord Randolph Churchill was a representative of the Conservative Party who was later elected as Member of Parliament for Woodstock.

And his mother, Jennie Churchill, was the daughter of a wealthy American businessman. Winston Churchill joined the army in 1895. In which he played his duty in British India. Also participated in the Anglo-Sudan War and the Second Boer War.

After this, during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945, he served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Later again he became the Prime Minister from 1951 to 1955.

He is considered a wartime leader because of his role during world war 2. Apart from this, he is also remembered as a Nobel Prize-winning writer, historian, prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians.

In 1955, his health deteriorated a bit, due to which he resigned from the post of Prime Minister. But he remained working as MP till 1964. And in 1965 he died at the age of 90 due to a stroke.

Today he is considered one of the greatest and most important figures of the 20th century. Especially in the UK and Western world, it is still very popular. Winston Churchill had good leadership skills and could take decisions very quickly.

Apart from this, he was very good at diplomacy. So let’s try to improve and bring all these qualities in us through Winston Churchill quotes.

Best Quotes By Winston Churchill:

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. – Winston Churchill

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. – Winston Churchill

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome. – Winston Churchill

One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions. – Winston Churchill

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is. – Winston Churchill

Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains. – Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed…why should we fear for our future? – Winston Churchill

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. – Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. – Winston Churchill

You create your own universe as you go along. – Winston Churchill

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. – Winston Churchill

As one’s fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void. – Winston Churchill

I like to live in the past. I don’t think people are going to get much fun in the future. – Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. – Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill

The most important thing about education is appetite. – Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

A change is as good as a rest. – Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. – Winston Churchill

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it. – Winston Churchill

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required. – Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill

Influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. – Winston Churchill

I don’t like mixing up moralities with mathematics. – Winston Churchill

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. – Winston Churchill

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see. – Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Winston Churchill

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. – Winston Churchill

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. – Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. – Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Winston Churchill

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. – Winston Churchill

if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!  – Winston Churchill

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

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. – Winston Churchill

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. – Winston Churchill

I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. – Winston Churchill

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds. – Winston Churchill

Doubts can be swept away only by deeds. – Winston Churchill

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. – Winston Churchill

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. – Winston Churchill

Funny Winston Churchill Quotes :

A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. – Winston Churchill

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill

My education was interrupted only by my schooling. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes About Success :

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. – Winston Churchill

It’s no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. – Winston Churchill

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

Success always demands a greater effort. – Winston Churchill

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes About Democracy :

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

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

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. – Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. – Winston Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill

Democracy is always two years behind the dictator. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Courage Quotes :

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

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

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes About Life :

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

Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them can be separated from the rest. – Winston Churchill

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. – Winston Churchill

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. – Winston Churchill

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. – Winston Churchill

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it. – Winston Churchill

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. – Winston Churchill

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes On Socialism And History :

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. – Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes About War :

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him. – Winston Churchill

There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. – Winston Churchill

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war. – Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy. – Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can. – Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes About Victory :

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

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished. – Winston Churchill

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. – Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes About Enemies :

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Quotes on Freedom :

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. – Winston Churchill