Ordinary Person Quotes

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

I am an ordinary person.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.

The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.