Nicholas Winton Quotes

#1. I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.

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#2. I've always enjoyed doing work that intrudes, or helps people.

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#3. Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

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#4. I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

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#5. Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.

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#6. Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.

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#7. I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

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#8. It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

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#9. I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

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#10. If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it,

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#11. Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.

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