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Winston Churchill Biography
- Full Name : Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- Born : November 30, 1874 (Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England)
- Dead : January 24, 1965 (London, England)
- Nationality : English
- Profession : Prime Minister, Author, Politician, Leader
- Spouse : Clementine Hozier
- Children : Diana, Sarah, Mary, Randolph, and Marigold
- Parent : Jennie Jerome and Randolph Churchill
- Awards : Nobel Prize 1953
- Books : The River War, The World Crisis, The Story of the Malakand Field Force.
Facts About Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill was an award-winning author.
- Winston Churchill’s mother was an American.
- Winston Churchill proposed to and was rejected by three women before Clementine Hozier.
- Winston Churchill was voted out of office before World War II’s end.
- Winston Churchill was no fan of Gandhi.
Winston Churchill Quotes
1. “ Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. ”
— Winston Churchill
2. “ My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. ”
— Winston Churchill
3. “ The price of greatness is responsibility. ”
— Winston Churchill
4. “ In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. ”
— Winston Churchill
5. “ Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen. ”
— Winston Churchill
6. “ Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. ”
— Winston Churchill
7. “ One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather. ”
— Winston Churchill
8. “ It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. ”
— Winston Churchill
9. “ Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ”
— Winston Churchill
10. “ I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. ”
— Winston Churchill
11. “ It is the time to dare and endure. ”
— Winston Churchill
12. “ The true guide of life is to do what is right. ”
— Winston Churchill
13. “ Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ”
— Winston Churchill
14. “ I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. ”
— Winston Churchill
15. “ Time and money are largely interchangeable terms. ”
— Winston Churchill
16. “ It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny. ”
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17. “ Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
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18. “ All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ”
— Winston Churchill
19. “ One ought to be just before one is generous. ”
— Winston Churchill
20. “ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ”
— Winston Churchill
21. “ You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks. ”
— Winston Churchill
22. “ You must look at facts because they look at you. ”
— Winston Churchill
23. “ Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ”
— Winston Churchill
24. “ Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. ”
— Winston Churchill
25. “ If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future. ”
— Winston Churchill
26. “ There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ”
— Winston Churchill
27. “ We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. ”
— Winston Churchill
28. “ A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ”
— Winston Churchill
29. “ You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success. ”
— Winston Churchill
30. “ Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. ”
— Winston Churchill
31. “ I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity. ”
— Winston Churchill
32. “ The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ”
— Winston Churchill
33. “ If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care. ”
— Winston Churchill
34. “ If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ”
— Winston Churchill
35. “ I'm prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ”
— Winston Churchill
36. “ The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ”
— Winston Churchill
37. “ The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ”
— Winston Churchill
38. “ It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. ”
— Winston Churchill
39. “ The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ”
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40. “ 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. ”
— Winston Churchill
41. “ Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured. ”
— Winston Churchill
42. “ We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another. ”
— Winston Churchill
43. “ War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs. ”
— Winston Churchill
44. “ It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them. ”
— Winston Churchill
45. “ When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. ”
— Winston Churchill
46. “ All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. ”
— Winston Churchill
47. “ Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others. ”
— Winston Churchill
48. “ Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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— Winston Churchill
49. “ I never worry about action, but only about inaction. ”
— Winston Churchill
50. “ Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. ”
— Winston Churchill
51. “ Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. ”
— Winston Churchill
52. “ 76. I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen. ”
— Winston Churchill
53. “ The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers. ”
— Winston Churchill
54. “ Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. ”
— Winston Churchill
55. “ We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ”
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56. “ I may be drunk Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. ”
— Winston Churchill
57. “ An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last. ”
— Winston Churchill
58. “ In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. ”
— Winston Churchill
59. “ There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ”
— Winston Churchill
60. “ Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. ”
— Winston Churchill
61. “ Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. ”
— Winston Churchill
62. “ The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ”
— Winston Churchill
63. “ All wisdom is not new wisdom. ”
— Winston Churchill
64. “ Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries. ”
— Winston Churchill
65. “ It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required. ”
— Winston Churchill
66. “ Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. ”
— Winston Churchill
67. “ The English never draw a line without blurring it. ”
— Winston Churchill
68. “ Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ”
— Winston Churchill
69. “ There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. ”
— Winston Churchill
70. “ Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen. ”
— Winston Churchill
71. “ Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities. ”
— Winston Churchill
72. “ Craft is common both to skill and deceit. ”
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73. “ Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential. ”
— Winston Churchill
74. “ You have enemies?
Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life. ”
— Winston Churchill
75. “ To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often. ”
— Winston Churchill
76. “ Harsh laws are at times better than no laws at all. ”
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77. “ Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions. ”
— Winston Churchill
78. “ For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ”
— Winston Churchill
79. “ To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. ”
— Winston Churchill
80. “ In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ”
— Winston Churchill