Ordinary And Extraordinary Quotes:

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Strong, Strong Man, Strength Weakness

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

- Robertson Davies

source: Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Courage, Adversity, People, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Ordinary Extraordinary

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Ordinary Things, Ordinary, Extraordinary Love, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Ordinary Extraordinary

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

- Jimmy Johnson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Basketball, Softball Team, Inspirational Hard Work

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Incrementalism, Perserverance

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Math, Intelligence, Mind, Great Minds, Ordinary And Extraordinary

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Football, Softball Player

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

- Marie Angelique Arnauld

topic: Inspiring, Perfection, Ordinary Things, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Ordinary Extraordinary

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

- George Will

source: George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

topic: Positive Thinking, Ordinary, Persons, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Ordinary Person

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Differences, Ordinary, Doing The Right Thing, Ordinary And Extraordinary

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Promise, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Ordinary Extraordinary

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

- Gerard Way

topic: Hero, People, Ordinary, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Ordinary Extraordinary

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Confucius

topic: Moving, Men, Differences, Staircases, Ordinary And Extraordinary

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

- Natalie Goldberg

source: Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.96, Shambhala Publications

topic: Mind, Ordinary, Remember, Ordinary And Extraordinary

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

- Cherie Carter-Scott

topic: Positive Thinking, People, Impossible, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Possible And Impossible

We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.

- Nina Turner

topic: Country, Responsibility, Opportunity, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Quiet Voice

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

- Robert Toombs

topic: Ordinary, Quiet, Human Nature, Ordinary And Extraordinary, Ordinary Extraordinary

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: 1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.3, ch.5 (translated by David Magarshak).

topic: Law, Ordinary Extraordinary, People, Ordinary And Extraordinary