Quotes About Perseverance

You would rise in the world? . . . You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life. Churchill, Savrola

Nothing is lost while courage remains.

Nations which went down fighting rose again, but those which tamely surrendered were finished.

In the Second World War his bulldog obstinacy proved invaluable; during the Gallipoli campaign it left him appallingly vulnerable.

This is no time for ease and comfort,' he said in reference to the extension of rationing. 'It is the time to dare and endure.

This was a time when it was equally good to live or die. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

Politicians rise by toils and struggles. They expect to fall; they hope to rise again.

Many people say I ought to have retired after the war, and have become some sort of elder statesman, but how could I? I have fought all my life and cannot give up fighting now!

Without all this self-control, do you think I could have done all I've done?33

Andrew Roberts

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not to threaten to resign unless one is prepared to go into the wilderness.

Andrew Roberts

True heroism consists of being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge to the combat.' Napoleon on board HMS Northumberland, 1815

I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value Ã¢â'¬â€œ I can still walk about the world with my head erect.'235 'My dear Duff,' Churchill wrote to him, 'Your speech was one of the finest Parliamentary performances I have ever heard. It was admirable in form, massive in argument and shone with courage and public spirit.'236

By the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill had made about 1,700 speeches and travelled about 82,000 miles – over three times the circumference of the earth – to deliver them. It was an extraordinary display of energy, far more than normal politicians even of the front rank. He had become a vastly experienced and assured public speaker, capable of gauging any audience in an instant.

If he lasts a year, he'll go far.' Talleyrand on Napoleon's consulship

We don't let them rest,' said General Kurt Wallenius of the Finnish Northern Army; 'we don't let them sleep. This is a war of numbers against brains.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.

There is something rather wonderful about the fact that, at a particularly perilous point in a war for the continued independent existence of the nation, the British Prime Minister could be upbraided by his wife for being short tempered; we can be fairly certain that no one was saying this to Churchill's opposite number in the Reich Chancellery.

take it.' London could take anything. My heart goes

More battles are lost by loss of hope than loss of blood.

Disaster and treating 'those two impostors just the same'. She added, 'Remember that

I have never been seduced by prosperity; adversity shall find me superior to its blows.'79