Winston Churchill Citaten, Quotes en Uitspraken

Winston Churchill was een Britse politicus die diende als minister-president van het Verenigd Koninkrijk in 1940-1945, en opnieuw in 1951-1955. Weet jij ook nog een paar Winston Churchill citaten? laat het ons dan weten.

• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
• A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
• A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
• A remarkable and definite victory, the bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.
• A stubborn man can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
• Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
• Americans always do the right thing, but not until they have exhausted every possible alternative.
• As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
• Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
• Don’t argue about the difficulties, the difficulties will argue for themselves.
• Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision.
• History is written by the victors.
• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
• I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
• I am ready to meet my Maker, whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
• I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia, it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
• I have taken more from alcohol than alcohol has ever taken from me.
• If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
• If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
• It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead, the chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
• It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we must do what is required.
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• It’s not enough to have lived, we should be determined to live for something.
• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say,this was their finest hour.
• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne, knowing him was like drinking it.
• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
• Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
• Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
• Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
• Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.
• Sometimes doing your best is not good enough, sometimes you must do what is required.
• Success always demands a greater effort.
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
• Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
• The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.
• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
• The optimist sees opportunity in every danger, the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
• The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
• This is not the end its only the begninning.
• This is not the end, this inst even the beginning of the end, but perhaps it is the end of the beginning.
• Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
• To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years, to destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
• Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be, for without vicory there is no survival.
• War is not final, failure is not fatal, it isn the will to continue that counts.
• When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
• Yes, madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
• You create your own universe as you go along.
• You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
• You have enemies? good, that means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
• You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give.
• You 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.
• You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.