Winston Churchill Quotes

Biography: Winston Churchill is best known for his leadership of the United Kingd... more Biography: Winston Churchill is best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. As Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945, Churchill's stirring speeches and unyielding spirit inspired British resistance against Nazi Germany. He also served as Prime Minister from 1951 to 1955 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. less

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.""The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.""Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.""Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.""When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.""The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.""The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.""Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.""Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.""The price of greatness is responsibility.""The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.""Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.""You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.""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.""A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.""Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.""Never, never, never give up.""If you are going through hell, keep going.""We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.""It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

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