11 Winston Churchill Quotes on Life

Winston Churchill quotes on life

28. I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

78. I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.

85. For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

115. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. (to be found in 'My Early Life', the story of his first 25 years).

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

147. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

182. The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it.

197. When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

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

206. It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

215. You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.