Winston Churchill

Quote of Winston Churchill - All the great things are simple...

Biography - Winston Churchill:

British politician and statesman.
Born: 1874 - Died: 1965
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

United Kingdom

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

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Quotes for: simplicity

Quotes about simplicity:

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein /

The language of truth is simple.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Frédéric Chopin /

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Quotes for: hope

Quotes about hope:

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Torquato Tasso /

hope

Hope stole into my heart against my will.

Jean Racine - Phèdre /

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes /

hope

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon /

hope

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Friedrich Schiller /

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Quotes for: freedom

Quotes about freedom:

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nelson Mandela /

One is not born, but rather becomes, free.

André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie /

freedom

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.

- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 /

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Quotes for: word

Quotes for: word

The word flies and cannot be recalled.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

word

One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.

André Breton - Le revolver à cheveux blancs /

word

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks /

Finding the right words at the right moment is action.

Hannah Arendt /

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers /

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

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Quotes for: Justice

Quotes about Justice:

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

Nelson Mandela /

There is no justice in putting strength on a level above wisdom.

Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Justice seeks no reward.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - De legibus /

Justice

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon /

Justice

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Quotes for: duty

Quotes for: duty

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus - Carnets /

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein /

There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.

It is much easier to obey your superior than to command yourself; and when you can do whatever you want, it's not easy to want only what you have to.

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Winston Churchill also said...

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill - Quotation of uncertain origin /

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill /

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill /

truth

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill /

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill - Quotation of uncertain origin /

For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

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