A Quote by Nancy Astor

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Nancy Astor

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Nancy Astor
British - Politician
May 19, 1879 - May 2, 1964

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Arlo Guthrie

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

Tony Dungy

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Herb Brooks

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

Booker T. Washington

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Confucius

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

Baba Amte

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Henry Thomas Buckle

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

Dave Ramsey

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Hector Hugh Munro

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Jack Kirby

I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an "uncommon sense," an individual voice that tells us what we're meant to do.

Theodora Goss

In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.

Marcus Luttrell

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