Adversity Quotes by Winston Churchill

God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid…

— Winston Churchill

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my…

— Winston Churchill

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All…

— Winston Churchill

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a…

— Winston Churchill

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem…

— Winston Churchill

“When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we…

— Winston Churchill

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

— Winston Churchill

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

— Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

— Winston Churchill

We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we…

— Winston Churchill

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

— Winston Churchill

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

— Winston Churchill

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the…

— Winston Churchill

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

— Winston Churchill

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The…

— Winston Churchill

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the…

— Winston Churchill

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the…

— Winston Churchill

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

— Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

— Winston Churchill

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of…

— Winston Churchill

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as…

— Winston Churchill

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

— Winston Churchill

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only…

— Winston Churchill