Average Person Quotes

• According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Motivational, Death

  110 Copy quote

• There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

  Daniel Tammet

  Average, People, Expectations

  13 Copy quote

• The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Sleep, Insomnia

  18 Copy quote

• I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Who I Am, Average, Littles

  16 Copy quote

• I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Memories, Home, Average

  "Commentary: Let's aim for Mars". www.cnn.com. June 23, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Friendship, God, Dog

  18 Copy quote

• Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

  William Ralph Inge

  Average, Tyrants, Public Opinion

  Outspoken Essays Our Present Discontents (p. 9)

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Gratitude, Taken, Loss

  59 Copy quote

• The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Courage

  Brian Tracy (2010). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.149, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

  J. Cole

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

  904 Copy quote
• 

  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  203 Copy quote

• The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

  Ivor Novello

  Average, Entertainment, Add

  85 Copy quote

• Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Witty

  201 Copy quote

• I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

  Mike Tyson

  Thinking, Average, Nuts

  7 Copy quote

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Average

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1605 Copy quote

• I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

  Mario Balotelli

  Believe, Intelligent, Average

  "Balotelli: I'm a misunderstood genius". Interview, www.espnfc.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  82 Copy quote

• If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Nobel, Persons

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.342, Princeton University Press

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

  383 Copy quote

  Show source

• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Average, Work Ethic, Energy

  10 Copy quote

• An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Ambition, Clear Goals, Average

  14 Copy quote

• I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

  Demetri Martin

  Grateful, Average, Hendrix

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

  Herbie Hancock

  Country, Mean, Average

  8 Copy quote