Time Quotes by Winston Churchill · Page 2

“I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.”

— Winston Churchill

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

— Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

— Winston Churchill

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

— Winston Churchill

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

— Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

— Winston Churchill

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

— Winston Churchill

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

— Winston Churchill

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the…

— Winston Churchill

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the…

— Winston Churchill

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian…

— Winston Churchill

“Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that…

— Winston Churchill

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on…

— Winston Churchill

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but…

— Winston Churchill

“I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight…

— Winston Churchill

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which…

— Winston Churchill

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid…

— Winston Churchill

“Let us accept the natural order in which we move. Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such…

— Winston Churchill

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done,…

— Winston Churchill

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes…

— Winston Churchill

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure…

— 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 stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom…

— Winston Churchill

The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was…

— Winston Churchill

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

— Winston Churchill

“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.”

— Winston Churchill

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old…

— Winston Churchill

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the…

— Winston Churchill

“Truth is the most valuable thing in the world but often times is hidden by a bodyguard of lies.”

— Winston Churchill

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

— Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

— Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a…

— Winston Churchill

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

— Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

— Winston Churchill

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

— Winston Churchill

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and…

— Winston Churchill

“To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill