A Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American - Author
June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Coventry Patmore

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

Max Lucado

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Booker T. Washington

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

Andre Maurois

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

Martha Graham

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

Pope Francis

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Mercedes Lackey

The Christmas message itself is that God chooses common people to do the most uncommon things. No matter how common you are, and no matter how simple you are, God has a plan and ability to come into our world and do something unusual.

Max Lucado

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Coventry Patmore

One should use common words to say uncommon things

Arthur Schopenhauer

The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads us in the direction of disorder and death. They are categorically evil. These dispositions are destroying our only home-planet and other organisms that share it. They defeat our need to care about where we are and the things in place there. They prompt us to feel that civilization is not worth carrying on. They rob us of our identity and our will to live. These things are not about personal taste or style.

James Howard Kunstler

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.

Jo Cox

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

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.