Extraordinary Things Quotes

• The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 13, 2014

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• Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Doe, Holiness

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Leadership, Extraordinary Person

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

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Happiness, Inspiring

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• There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

  Brad Brown

  People, Ordinary, Given

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Change, Passion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• 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.

  Daryn Kagan

  War, People, Ordinary

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• Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Lakes, People

  President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Ordinary Extraordinary

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

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Love, Christian, Ordinary

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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• Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

  Michael Josephson

  Inspirational, Character, People

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• You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Hero, Things In Life

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• Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

  David A. Bednar

  God, Faith, Christian

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• One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  Salman Rushdie

  Events, Unthinkable, Humans

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

  Phillip Adams

  People, Risk, Can Do

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• Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

  Paul David Tripp

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

  Patricia Stephens Due

  People, Ordinary, Can Do

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• You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

  Joan Armatrading

  People, Achievement, Ordinary

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

  David Cronenberg

  Baby, Sex, Mean

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

  Graham Swift

  Art, Clever, Real

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

  Mia Love

  Father, Opportunity, Government

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

  Veronique Vienne

  Inspiring, Differences, Ordinary

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• And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

  Viola Davis

  People, Ordinary, Helping

  FaceBook post by Viola Davis from Jul 24, 2014

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• I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

  Celine Dion

  Inspirational, Baby, Powerful

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