Winston Churchill's quote

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

윈스턴 처칠 (ko)
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink." "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." <em>Exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill&mdash;</em>
Never, never, never give in!
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
Never give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
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.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Their Finest Hour
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, 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.
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
A joke is a very serious thing.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
History is written by the victors.
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.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.