Winston Churchill
England
30 Nov 1874 // 24 Jan 1965
Politician / Statesman / Orator
30 Nov 1874 // 24 Jan 1965
Politician / Statesman / Orator
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results
History will be kind to me for as I intend to write it
History is written by the victors
Great and good are seldom the same man
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others
Eating words has never given me indigestion
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won
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
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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