Ordinary Quotes

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All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations. — Dalai Lama
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels… — Martin Luther
We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears… — Max Lucado
The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk — Nelson Mandela
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water. — Bob Goff
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. — Mark Nepo
Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such… — Werner Erhard
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook… — Wojciech Kurtyka
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. — Doug Scott
Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models. — Marian Wright Edelman
And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary. — Paula Cole
The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous. — Simon Armitage
I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. — Iyanla Vanzant
There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it. — Larry Dossey
There are no ordinary lives. — Ken Burns
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary. — Andrew Motion
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. — Billy Idol
I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have… — Ray Martin
You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are… — Peter Cundall
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of… — Phyllis McGinley
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the… — Aleister Crowley
Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect… — Paulo Coelho
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain. — Oswald Chambers
The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people… — Alan Keyes
Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required… — Elizabeth Lesser

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