Winston Churchill Quotes and its meanings

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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

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

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.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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

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

There is no such thing as a good tax.

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

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

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

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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

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

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

History is written by the victors.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

A joke is a very serious thing.

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.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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.

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.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

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.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

If youre going through hell, keep going.

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

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.