The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

—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...

More quotations from Winston Churchill

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

—Winston Churchill

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

—Winston Churchill

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

More quotations tagged with “giving”

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

—Publilius Syrus

Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

—Publilius Syrus

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

—Norman Douglas

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