Winston Churchill on Stoicism Quotes

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

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

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

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

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

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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

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

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."

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

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."

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

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

"He who fails to plan is planning to fail."

"Healthy discontent is the first step to progress."

"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."

"We must just keep on pegging away."

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

"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right."

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

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down."

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

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

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

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

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

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."

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

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."