Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and…

— Jodi Picoult

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could…

— Anonymous

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— William Wordsworth

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

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

— Gerard Way

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one…

— Jodi Picoult

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

— Bruce Wilkinson

“...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take…

— Daniel James Brown

Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by…

— Werner Erhard

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

— Dave Winfield

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

— Philip Zimbardo

“Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.”

— Henry David Thoreau