Top 316 Uncommon Quotes & Sayings

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

Common sense is very uncommon.

When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.

The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

The name Joe Shapiro is not uncommon in New York City.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon results - things that people said couldn't be done.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

I'm looking for uncommon people.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

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

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

It's not uncommon for young people to expect things. It's part of growing up.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

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.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

I feel like directorial teams aren't quite as uncommon in documentary.

Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.

Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional and uncompromising. Every winning team has it.

It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Heart issues, they happen to men, it's not uncommon.

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

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.

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.

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.