Winston Churchill on Determination Quotes

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

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

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

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

"Never, never, never give up."

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"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."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

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

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

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory."

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

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

"All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential."

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

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"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."

"One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather."

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

"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

"We must just keep on keeping on."

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be."

"In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill."

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

"We in this country, as in other Liberal and democratic countries, have a perfect right to exalt the principle of self-determination, but it comes ill out of the mouths of those in totalitarian States who deny even the smallest element of toleration to every section and creed within their bounds. Speech in the House of Commons (5 October 1938)"

"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."