Winston Churchill on Vision Quotes

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

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

"An iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

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

"Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries."

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

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

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

"A nation that forgets its past has no future."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

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

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

"It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic."

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

"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

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

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

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

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

"We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic."

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

"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."

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"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."

"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."

"Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow... and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen."

"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."