Winston Churchill Quotes

It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.

To the stars through thorns.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the middle where it's just dark. There's no light from where you came in and there's no light at the other end; all you can do is keep running. And then you start to see a little light, and a little more light, and then, bam! You're out in the sun.

When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

The only way round is through.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.