Ordinary People Quotes - Page 18

• We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Ordinary, Our Lives

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• You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

  Peter Cundall

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dream, Ambition, People

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• The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

  Alan Keyes

  Opportunity, People, Judging

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• The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, People, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 05, 2014

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• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving Up, Hero, People

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• There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Powerful, Healing

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• Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Women, Greatness, History

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• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, People, Ordinary

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  Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

  Gerard Way

  Hero, Extraordinary Person, Ordinary Extraordinary

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• A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mother, Games, People

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• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

  Mike Huckabee

  Opportunity, Expectations, People

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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