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

Winston Churchill Quotes

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

Winston Churchill

Success, Courage, Failure

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

Funny, Morning, Drunk

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

Winston Churchill

Strength, Intelligence

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Attitude, Difference, Big

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Success, Failure, Loss

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

Winston Churchill

Change, Perfect, Improve

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

Winston Churchill

Life, Living, Brainy

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

Winston Churchill

Life, Good, You

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Winston Churchill

Christmas, Reflection, Only

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

Marriage, Achievement, Wife

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

Road, Victory, Survival

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Best, Democracy, Government

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Motivational, Keep Going

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

Motivational, Never, Give

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill

Strength, Wind, Rise

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

Truth, World, Chance

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Opportunity, Optimist

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

Winston Churchill

Nothing, Blood, Tears

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

End, Beginning, Now

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

Nature, Strong, Grow

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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.

Winston Churchill

War, Fight, Island

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

Winston Churchill

Success, Best, Doing

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

Do The Right Thing, You

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

Pain, Body, Attention

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

Failure, Ignorance

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

Words, Unsaid, Slaves

Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Statesman

Born: November 30, 1874

Died: January 24, 1965

History portrays Winston Churchill as a robust British leader with a cigar, standing firm against German aggression during World War II. But... Read full biography