There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “But the dangerous corner has been turned, and…there is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard.” · Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 December 1941

Expert knowledge, however indispensable, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon the human story with all its sadness, with all its unquenchable hope.

Winston Churchill · Churchill at the University of Copenhagen in 1950, on what education is for.

By a blessed dispensation, human beings forget physical pain much more quickly than they do their joyous emotions and experiences.

Winston Churchill · Fourth Alamein Reunion, Empress Hall, London, 21 October 1949

Victory is traditionally elusive. Accidents happen. Mistakes are made. Sometimes right things turn out wrong, and quite often wrong things turn out right.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 11 December 1941

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do.

Claude Adrien Helvétius · From the preface to De l'Esprit; he adds that this is a principle on which society is not founded.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt · From his Labor Day "Square Deal" speech at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, 7 September 1903.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

William Makepeace Thackeray · The Queen of Paflagonia in 'The Rose and the Ring' (1855) ch. 1.

“There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard.”

“Expert knowledge, however indispensable, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon the human story with all its sadness, with all its unquenchable hope.”

“By a blessed dispensation, human beings forget physical pain much more quickly than they do their joyous emotions and experiences.”

“Victory is traditionally elusive. Accidents happen. Mistakes are made. Sometimes right things turn out wrong, and quite often wrong things turn out right.”

“What makes men happy is liking what they have to do.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“Business first; pleasure afterwards.”

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