Ordinary Quotes

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. (Ezra Pound)
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. View quote
Sun Tzu
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. View quote
Isaac Newton
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. View quote
Jim Rohn
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. View quote
Gerard Way
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. (Anthony Kennedy)
There are no ordinary moments. View quote
Dan Millman
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. View quote
William Hazlitt
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. View quote
Graham Greene
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. View quote
Christopher Reeve
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
I don't work at being ordinary. View quote
Paul McCartney
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. (William Stanley Jevons)
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. And I warn you not to grow old. View quote
Neil Kinnock
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. View quote
Boris Yeltsin