Who has never heard or read quotes from Winston Churchill?! This British statesman, known for his talents as a speaker and writer, left us a multitude of famous phrases on politics, war, democracy, success, thus continuing to inspire the whole world! (No attribution.Welcome back to Books That Can Change Your Life ! Since it is not your first visit here, you must want to receive The 3 Vital Principles To Succeed in Life, backed by science : Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.An almost equal number of sources credit this to Abraham Lincoln but none provides attribution to either Lincoln or WSC.) (Broadly attributed to Churchill, but found nowhere in his canon. Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.The following are all over the web and included in a number of Churchill quotation books. “…no one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.” - Their Finest Hour, 1949 What he never said… “Success always demands a greater effort.” –13 December 1940 to Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies, Their Finest Hour, 1949 ”…no boy or girl should ever be disheartened by lack or success in their youth but should diligently and faithfully continue to persevere and make up for lost time.” –Speech, University of Miami (Fla.), 26 February 1946 She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.” –My Early Life, 1930 She was made to be wooed and won by youth. You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. ”Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. “…do not be carried away by success into demanding more than is right or prudent.” -House of Commons, 3 March 1919 “You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.” –19 February 1900, South Africa, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1900. Here are some of the things that he actually said, confirmed in Churchill By Himself –in chronological order, with citations: His genuine quotations on the subject are less often heard. WSC Churchill on Success – Guaranteed GenuineĬhurchill said much about success in life and politics, but he is frequently misquoted. There at least is a sentiment which I am sure the Faculty and the Public, the scholars and the dunces, will all be cordially united upon. This would however, Ladies and Gentlemen, be a conclusion unedifying in the academic atmosphere in which I now preen myself, and I therefore hasten to draw another moral with which I am sure we shall all be in accord: namely, that no boy or girl should ever be disheartened by lack of success in their youth but should diligently and faithfully continue to persevere and make up for lost time. ![]() From this a superficial thinker might argue that the way to get the most degrees is to fail in the most examinations. In fact one might almost say that no one ever passed so few examinations and received so many degrees. ![]() ![]() I am surprised that in my later life I should have become so experienced in taking degrees, when, as a school-boy I was so bad at passing examinations. At the bottom are two no-nos: things he never said, but is always credited as saying. In the hope that they will quote him accurately, here is a small selection. It is Commencement time across colleges and universities, and some speakers will be quoting Churchill on success in life.
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