Action Quotes by Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

— Winston Churchill

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

— Winston Churchill

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

— Winston Churchill

Things do not get better by being left alone.

— Winston Churchill

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

— Winston Churchill

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

— Winston Churchill

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

— Winston Churchill

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

— Winston Churchill

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ...…

— Winston Churchill

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are…

— Winston Churchill

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is…

— Winston Churchill

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put…

— Winston Churchill

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

— Winston Churchill

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

— Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the…

— Winston Churchill

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few…

— Winston Churchill

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and…

— Winston Churchill

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a…

— Winston Churchill

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where…

— Winston Churchill

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some…

— Winston Churchill

We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We…

— Winston Churchill

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been…

— Winston Churchill

If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of…

— Winston Churchill

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is…

— Winston Churchill

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and…

— Winston Churchill

Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a…

— Winston Churchill

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…

— Winston Churchill

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their…

— Winston Churchill

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications…

— Winston Churchill

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right…

— Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the…

— Winston Churchill

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon…

— Winston Churchill