A Quote by William Halsey

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

William Halsey

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William Halsey
American - Military man
October 30, 1882 - August 16, 1959

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

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Halsey

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Tunku Abdul Rahman

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

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Veronique Vienne

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 taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Tahir Shah

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

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Wilferd Peterson

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Roland Allen

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith

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