Winston Churchill Quotes

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

You must always work.

Labor is life; thought is light.

There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.