丘吉尔名言精选50句

Winston Churchil British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

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01 "Never, never, never, never give up."

02 "The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

03 "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

04 "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

05 "I like a man who grins when he fights."

06 "True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

07 "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

08 "Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."

09 "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

10 "We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."

11 "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

12 "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

13 "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

14 "Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance"

15 "If you mean to profit, learn to please."

16 "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

17 "Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

18 "I never worry about action, but only about inaction"

19 "The price of greatness is responsibility."

20 "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

21 "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope"

22 "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

23 "No crime is so great as daring to excel."

24 "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won"

25 "The first quality that is needed is audacity."

26 "There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."

27 "There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction"

28 "It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."

29 "When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

30 "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

31 "In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."

32 "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril"

33 "Politics is almost as exci

ting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

34 "History is written by the victors."

35 "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle"

36 "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

37 "In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies"

38 "The shadow of victory is disillusion"

39 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

40 "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

41 "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

42 “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry"

43 "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last"

44 "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

45 "It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive"

46 "Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have"

47 "We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it"

48 "We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."

49 "The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."

50 "The Arabs are a backwards people who eat nothing but Camel dung"