The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

—Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between...

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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

—Winston Churchill

Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.

—Winston Churchill

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

—Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

—Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

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More quotations tagged with “excellence”

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

—Shana Alexander

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word—excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

—Publilius Syrus

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

—Michael J. Fox

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