Quotes & Sayings About Giving Winston Churchill

We often hear military experts inculcate the doctrine of giving priority to the decisive theatre. There is a lot in this. But in war this principle, like all others, is governed by facts and circumstances; otherwise strategy would be too easy. It would become a drill-book and not an art; it would depend upon rules and not on an instructed and fortunate judgment of the proportions of an ever-changing scene. — Winston S. Churchill

The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. - Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany's war preparedness — Winston S. Churchill

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. — Winston Churchill

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us. — Winston Churchill

Wars are not won by evacuations. — Winston Churchill

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. — Winston Churchill

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. — Winston Churchill

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward ... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire. — Winston Churchill

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument. — Winston Churchill

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. — Winston Churchill

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away. — Winston Churchill

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence. — Aneurin Bevan

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians. — Winston Churchill

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself ... It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet. — Winston Churchill

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results. — Winston Churchill

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. — Winston Churchill

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place. — Winston Churchill

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large. — Winston Churchill

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never! — Winston Churchill

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never. — Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. — Winston S. Churchill

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give. — Winston Churchill

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. — Winston Churchill

We get to make a living; we give to make a life. — Winston Churchill

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne — Winston Churchill

I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job. — Kofi Annan