10 Winston Churchill Quotes That Get You to the Corner Office

Meera JagannathanUpdated: Mar. 16, 2022

Kick your way to upper management with these quotes from the fierce British leader, who was born on November 30, 1874 but whose words remain timeless.

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There is no time for ease and comfort.

It is the time to dare and endure. —Winston Churchill

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You will never reach your destination

if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. —Winston Churchill

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Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell

in such a way that they look forward to the trip. —Winston Churchill

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A kite flies against the wind,

not with it. —Winston Churchill

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It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’

You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. —Winston Churchill

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Success is stumbling from failure to failure

with no loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

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If you’re going through hell,

keep going. —Winston Churchill

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If you have an important point to make,

don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time—a tremendous whack. —Winston Churchill

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Sometimes doing your best is not good enough.

Sometimes you must do what is required. —Winston Churchill

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Be a peg,

hammered into the frozen ground, immovable. —Winston Churchill

Originally Published: April 03, 2014

Originally Published in Reader's Digest