Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The only guide to man is his conscience.
If you are going to go through hell, keep going
The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.