Winston Churchill once joked: “When I was young, I had one rule: no alcohol before lunch.
Now that I’m no longer young, I strictly follow the rule: no alcohol… before breakfast.”
Churchill remains the only British Prime Minister to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Reading him reminds you that you don’t need to write massive novels to be a brilliant writer — or a philosopher, for that matter.
Here are some of his reflections that still hit surprisingly well today:
1. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
2. You have enemies? Good. That means you stood up for something at some point.
3. A crisis is simply an opportunity in disguise.
4. A wise person doesn’t make all the mistakes alone — they let others have some.
5. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
6. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
7. Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it.
8. Only a fool never changes his …More