Winston Churchill on Deep Work Quotes

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"There is no such thing as a good tax."

"My rule was: No wine till dinner and no smoking before breakfast."

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

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant."

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

"Great and good are seldom the same man."

"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."

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

"The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities."

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it."

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm."

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

"The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy."

"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."

"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"To build may be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"You must look at facts because they look at you."

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"The Budget, and the policy of the Budget, is the first conscious attempt on the part of the State to build up a better and a more scientific organization of society for the workers of this country. The People's Rights (1970), pp. 146-147"

"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 honour and good sense."