Winston Churchill quotes are most usually centered around war and fighting battles where the fate of England rested on the outcome.
Churchill is regarded by some as one of the most important political leaders in history. Not only was he a unique and steadfast political leader (something we are surely lacking today) he was a soldier, journalist, and prolific author.
Winston Churchill's writings can teach the modern world much about overcoming great obstacles and succeeding when even your very existence is at stake.
His quotes are below:
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
"The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis"
"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
"If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
