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
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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.
Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.