This week sees the release of ‘CHURCHILL’ starring Brain Cox as Britain’s iconic Prime Minister Winston Churchill, covering the days before the infamous D-Day landings in June 1944.  As allied forces stand on the south coast of Britain, poised to invade Nazi-occupied Europe, they await Churchill’s decision on whether the invasion will actually move ahead.

With the release of Churchill we thought we would compile our top ten Winston Churchill motivational quotes to inspire you through the week :

• “There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”
• “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
• “One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
• “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
• “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
• “There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”
• “This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
• “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
• “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.”
• “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Churchill is released in UK cinemas this Friday, 16^th June