Ordinary Quotes

• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."

  Caryll Houselander

  Love, Life, God

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Focus, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jul 10, 2014

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• Ordinary people can bring about change.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Ordinary People

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• Everything ordinary has the potential to be extraordinary.

  Ron Kaufman

  Extraordinary

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• The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Art, Moving, Moments

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• One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ordinary Days, Succession

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• Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Genius, Literature

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

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• Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.

  Martin Luther

  Race, Honor, Important

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• Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Crush

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• One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

  Thomas Merton

  Beauty, Reality, Important

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

  Frederick Buechner

  Way, Extraordinary

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• I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.

  Cameron Dokey

  True Love, Risk, Rewards

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Be content with an ordinary life.

  Laozi

  Ordinary Life

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

  Isaac Newton

  Application

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• I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

  Trent Parke

  Photography, Light, Forever

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  Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

  Gerard Way

  Hero, Extraordinary Person, Ordinary Extraordinary

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

  Anne Michaels

  Matter, Moments, Given

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.19, Emblem Editions

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Gods And Goddesses

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Men, Organization

  "Management".

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• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

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• I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Health, Air

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