Churchill

Quotes by Winston Churchill because I went to the Churchill museum in Fulton Mo.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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

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.

Let me have the best solution worked out. Don’t argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer