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
The biggest mistake that leaders can make is to give people false hope that melts like snow.
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.
I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.
It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.
Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.
The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.
The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.