Ordinary Quotes

2227 Ordinary quotes by 1506 unique authors

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount,… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about… — Jonathan Kozol
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is… — Sun Tzu
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives… — Kenji Miyazawa
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities. — Raymond Chandler
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words… — Horace
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only… — Keith Olbermann
He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only… — Leo Tolstoy
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. — John Ruskin
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. — William Halsey
It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends. — E. W. Howe
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. — Jerome K. Jerome
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people… — Mother Teresa
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives… — Deepak Chopra
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. — Stephen Jay Gould
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who commits… — Christopher Reeve
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the… — Tom Peters
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and… — Max Lerner
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman
Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do. — Cheryl Strayed

Who Wrote These Ordinary Quotes

1,506 authors contributed a total of 2,227 Ordinary Quotes, led by these top contributors: