A Quote by Edmund Hillary

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Edmund Hillary

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Edmund Hillary
New Zealander - Explorer
July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

Elfriede Jelinek

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

C. S. Lewis

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Oprah Winfrey

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Jim Valvano

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Robertson Davies

Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.

Rajneesh

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Michael Gerber

Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.

Spencer W. Kimball

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

Brad Brown

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Matthew Henry

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Orson Scott Card

We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.

Anis Mojgani

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.

Anna Popplewell

For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.

Talal Asad

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Karl Jaspers

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