Winston Churchill Quotes

We can either have a hard decade or a bad century.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Social changes always involve trade-offs.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

There's always a price for what you want.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

This is part of the price we pay, I guess, for living in paradise.

I could answer that the way you want, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

We are not able to sacrifice our short term interests for the sake of the long term.

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

If individuals have no sufficient reason to believe that a good situation today will have adverse long-term consequences, it must always be rational for them to aim to maximize their short-term good.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

I was always fearful I would become That Guy. The guy who had regret. 'Yeah, we won a couple of championships, but I never saw my kids grow up. Yeah, we beat Georgia a couple of times, but I ruined my marriage.'

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.