4 Winston Churchill Quotes on Perspective

Winston Churchill quotes on perspective

91. No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity. To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time-scale of our own lives.

133. I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

174. There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

194. When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.