Winston Churchill on Vision Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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

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

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

"An iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"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."

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

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

"The long view is the only view that is worth taking."

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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