Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

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

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

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.

I am prepared to meet my maker; whether my maker is prepared to meet me is entirely another matter.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. Speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London (1954-11-09).

The further back I look, the further forward I can see.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.