Top 1200 Ordinary Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

No doubt many people working in race relations sincerely want to make things better. But by constantly drawing attention to race and policing ordinary behavior, they risk making things worse.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.