A Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Abraham Lincoln

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Determination Extra Great Great Men Men Ordinary Ordinary Men

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Abraham Lincoln
American - President
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

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 difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.

Bear Grylls

Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

David Eddings

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

Bear Grylls

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

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Tunku Abdul Rahman

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

William Halsey

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

Tommy Barnett

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

Susan Sarandon

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.