About Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom through World War II. (1874-1965)

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More from Winston Churchill

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.First speech as Prime Minister, House of Commons (1940)
• We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'Speech in the House of Commons (18 June 1940)
• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.Speech at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House (1942)
• The price of greatness is responsibility.Speech at Harvard University (1943)
• Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'Great Contemporaries (1937)

More quotes on failure and resilience

• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.Nelson Mandela
• I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.Nelson Mandela
• I am fundamentally an optimist... Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.Nelson Mandela
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.Mahatma Gandhi
• If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.Martin Luther King Jr.
• If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass

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