Ordinary man Quotes

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

— Rakii Retondo

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

— George Meade

I am an ordinary man.

— Arvind Kejriwal

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

— Philip Caputo

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

— Peter O'Toole

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

— William Wordsworth

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

— Abraham Lincoln

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

— Muhammad Ali

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

— John Fowles

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man”

— Anonymous

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is…

— Min Jin Lee

“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.”

— Amit Kalantri

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally…

— Rowan Atkinson

“An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is…

— Augustine Birrell

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to…

— William Halsey

“A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored,…

— R.S. Vern

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do…

— Rex Harrison

“She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem…

— Émile Zola

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or…

— Ezra Pound

“In societies where there is no shame about breastfeeding, the ordinary man is not driven into a frenzy by the sight of…

— Gabrielle Palmer

[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller…

— Chris Pine

To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results.…

— H. W. Brands

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that…

— Loren Eiseley

“The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other form but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a…

— Sigmund Freud

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as…

— Bertrand Russell

“Ordinary man to Zen Master Ikkyu: ‘‘Master, please write the maxims exemplifying the highest wisdom.’’ Ikkyu immediately writes the ideogram ‘‘Attention,’’ with…

— James H. Austin

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience…

— Joseph Campbell

“Why the Albanians had created the institution of the guest, exalting it above all other human relations, even those of kinship. “Perhaps…

— Ismail Kadaré

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting…

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much…

— Dostoyevsky

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !

— Akbar

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

— Sri Aurobindo

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

— Henry Miller

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

— George Herbert

“A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana