Ordinary People Quotes

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

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

I never promised you a rose garden.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

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

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.