Winston Churchill Quotes

1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
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“Never, never, never, never give up.”
Perseverance
“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
Greatness
“I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.”
Planning
“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”
Risk
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
VerifiedThe Second World War (1939–1945) · evidenceGreatness
“Responsibility is the price of greatness.”
Responsibility
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
Satisfaction
“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”
Logic
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
Difficulties
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.”
Wealth
“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
Words
“It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.”
Betrayal
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
Solitude
“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”
Compromise
“I never "worry" about action, but only about inaction.”
VerifiedSource: Winston Churchill (Author) and Richard Langworth (Editor) (28. Oktober 2008): Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations. New York: PublicAffairs (1st Edition), page 160. · evidenceAction
“It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter”
Fear
“The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.”
VerifiedSpeech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 (full text, audio). · evidenceMind
“When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.”
Silence
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”
Simplicity
“I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”
Words
“The maxim of the British people is ''Business as usual.''”
Nations
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
VerifiedSpeech in the House of Commons, after taking office as Prime Minister (13 May 1940) This has often been misquoted in the form: "I have nothing to offer but blood, sweat and tears ..." · evidenceCourage
“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”
Home
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
Ideals and Idealism
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
Knowledge
“I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.”
Leaders and Leadership
“There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.”
Planning
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
Worry