11 Winston Churchill Quotes on Resilience

Winston Churchill quotes on resilience

19. The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

49. Goodnight then: sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly upon all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn. Vive la France! Long live also the forward march of the common people in all the lands towards their just and true inheritance, and towards the broader and fuller age.

56. 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. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

57. When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken... ' Some chicken; some neck.'- Refering to France in a speech to the Canadian Parliament 1941

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

140. I like a man who grins when he fights.

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

186. Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is.

190. We didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy.

203. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

211. Unknown MP sitting behind Churchill on the back benches during his twilight years, to adjacent colleague, sotto voce: He's not what he used to be. They say he's gone senile. Churchill, turning around to face them: And they say he has gone deaf as well!