Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.Winston Churchill
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Statesman · 1874 – 1965
British prime minister during the Second World War and Nobel laureate in Literature.
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