Uncommon Quotes

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

  Thomas Chalmers

  Common Sense, Said, Has Beens

  Thomas Chalmers (1840). “On natural theology”, p.276

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

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Patience, Revenge, Planning

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.141, 谷月社

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• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Effort, Excellence, Tasks

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Dream, Lines, Guts

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• 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.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, War, Men

  "31st President Achieved Prominence in Four Major Careers During His Lifetime". www.nytimes.com. Ooctober 21, 1964.

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• A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

  Al Gore

  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

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• The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Sacrifice, Generosity, Valor

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

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

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Athlete

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Literature, Common, Endeavor

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.189, Applewood Books

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• There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Knowledge, Thinking, Common Sense

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• In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Forever, World, Computer

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, 14 (4), April 1971.

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Teamwork, Common Vision, Individual Effort

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild”, p.186

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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Common Sense, Atmosphere

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Life, Freedom

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• Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Girl, Literature

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.29, Wild Jot Press

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• 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

  Success, Attention, Life Is

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• May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

  Charles Dickens

  People, Literature, May

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.160

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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

  Joel Osteen

  God, Faith, Christian

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from It's Your Time”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

  Max Lucado

  People, Doe, Common

  "Pastor/Author Max Lucado talks about seeing his bestselling book 'The Christmas Candle' turned into a movie". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Common, Rich, Get Rich

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• Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

  William Hazlitt

  Business, Self, Owing

  William Hazlitt (2008). “Liber Amoris and Related Writings”, Carcanet Press

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