Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, historian, writer, and artist. He was the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first person to be recognised as an Honorary Citizen of the United States. [source: wikipedia]
I just discovered that I share the same birth day as Sir Winston Churchill. No wonder all of his quotes resonated true with my spirit. As a matter fact while I was reading I kept thinking to myself, are we related somehow? Perhaps not physically, but most definitely spiritually. I am definitely feeling him. WOW!
10 Quotes Made By Winston Churchill
- If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- 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.
- 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.
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
BONUS
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
BONUS BONUS
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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