Ordinary Quotes

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.