Quotes from Winston Churchill

Never give in. 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.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Keep calm and carry on.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

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

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.