Quotes About Nicholas Winton

#1. To this day, most institutions of higher learning either do not know how to instruct students in reading beyond the elementary level, or lack the facilities and personnel to do so.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. 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.

Nicholas Winton

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

Nicholas Winton

#4. 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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#5. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Brian Tracy

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

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#8. If we can be Glad ... But we choose to be Sad, we Are MAD! ! !-RVM

R.v.m.

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

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#10. 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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#11. One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

Robert Walser

#12. Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Rick Riordan

#13. As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

Summer Sanders

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

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

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#16. 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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#17. Redound to the university's professed goal of excellence

Jane Smiley

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

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#19. In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.

Richard M. Daley

#20. I love touring, I really do.

Penelope Keith

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

Nicholas Winton