Ordinary And Extraordinary Quotes

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

  Robertson Davies

  Courage, Adversity, Ordinary Extraordinary

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

  Mother Teresa

  Ordinary Extraordinary, Ordinary Things, Changing The World

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.325, Image

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

  George Will

  Wise, Positive Thinking, Ordinary

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

  Jim Rohn

  Differences, Ordinary, Doing The Right Thing

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• Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Peace, Ordinary Extraordinary

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

  Gerard Way

  Hero, Extraordinary Person, Ordinary Extraordinary

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Moving, Men, Differences

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• We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Mind, Ordinary, Remember

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.96, Shambhala Publications

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Positive Thinking, Possible And Impossible, People

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.

  Nina Turner

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

  Robert Toombs

  Nature, Ordinary Extraordinary, Quiet

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• All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.3, ch.5 (translated by David Magarshak).

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