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
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!
We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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.
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.