India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and…

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

— Haile Gerima

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary…

— Carlos Castaneda

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes…

— Carlos Castaneda

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

— George Herbert

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

— William Wordsworth

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

— Loren Eiseley

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

— Yoshida Shoin

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

— Tahir Shah

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

— T. S. Eliot

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

— William Shakespeare

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus…

— Philip Kapleau

I'm just an ordinary man. I get tired.

— Rakii Retondo

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

— Anonymous

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy…

— Cheryl Strayed

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging…

— John Kenneth Galbraith