Ordinary Quotes - Page 9

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak; because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose; because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one; because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary; because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

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.

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

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

I am an ordinary person.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.