Ordinary People Quotes

• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

  William Halsey

  Greatness, Men, Volunteer

  "Fictional character: Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr". "The Gallant Hours", 1960.

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Ordinary

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ordinary, Morality

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

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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

  Socrates

  People, Wish, Might

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• Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

  Mike Murdock

  Inspirational, People, Pay

  Mike Murdock (2012). “The Making Of A Champion”, p.56, Wisdom International Inc

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• I never promised you a rose garden.

  Traian Basescu

  Garden, Rose, Blood Promise

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• People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

  Judith Guest

  Life, Depression, People

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

  Emmanuel Jal

  Want, Ifs

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• God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

  Ray Stedman

  Love, God, Christian

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.106, Discovery House

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

  Judith Guest

  Reality, People, May

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.93, Penguin

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Gnats, Civilization

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• I drink to make other people more interesting.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Life, Drinking

  "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

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• 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.

  Judith Guest

  Action, Life Is, Reason

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• One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, People, Ordinary

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Business, Ambition

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, People

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• Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

  Michael Josephson

  Inspirational, Character, People

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• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

  Nelson Mandela

  Worry, Vices, Ordinary

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• I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably
  become as ordinary as they expect you to be.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Motivational, Success, Dream

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