Quotes about Ordinary and Extraordinary

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. Votes: 2

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close. Votes: 2

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. Votes: 2

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Votes: 2

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary. Votes: 2

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. Votes: 1

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary Votes: 1

Ordinary people have extraordinary love. Votes: 0

ordinary is the door for extraordinary. Votes: 0

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. Votes: 0

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. Votes: 0

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact. Votes: 0

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Votes: 0

Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means. Votes: 0

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness. Votes: 0

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity. Votes: 0

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. Votes: 0

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen. Votes: 0

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Votes: 0

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. Votes: 0

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. Votes: 0

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job. Votes: 0

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education. Votes: 0

Everything ordinary has the potential to be extraordinary. Votes: 0

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency. Votes: 0

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary. Votes: 0

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective. Votes: 0

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. Votes: 0

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people. Votes: 0

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. Votes: 0

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary Votes: 0

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. Votes: 0

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too! Votes: 0

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage. Votes: 0

To find extraordinary things, go to the ordinary streets! Votes: 0

People don't follow ordinary people; they follow extraordinary people. Votes: 0

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people. Votes: 0

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Votes: 0

Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. Votes: 0

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. Votes: 0

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable Votes: 0

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries. Votes: 0

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. Votes: 0

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary. Votes: 0

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience. Votes: 0

When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary! Votes: 0

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job. Votes: 0

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices. Votes: 0

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary. Votes: 0

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach. Votes: 0

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. Votes: 0

Refuse to be an extraordinary person trapped in an ordinary life. Votes: 0

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. Votes: 0

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. Votes: 0

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service. Votes: 0

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. Votes: 0

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination. Votes: 0

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary! Votes: 0

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. Votes: 0

Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. Votes: 0

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Votes: 0

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities. Votes: 0

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time! Votes: 0

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! Votes: 0

How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way? Votes: 0

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being. Votes: 0

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference Votes: 0

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. Votes: 0

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary. Votes: 0

To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary Votes: 0

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. Votes: 0

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. Votes: 0

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. Votes: 0

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them Votes: 0

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world. Votes: 0

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn. Votes: 0

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary. Votes: 0

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary. Votes: 0

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. Votes: 0

The secrets that lead to extraordinary success, won't make sense to ordinary minds Votes: 0

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. Votes: 0

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it. Votes: 0

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. Votes: 0

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Votes: 0

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary. Votes: 0

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. Votes: 0

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves. Votes: 0

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation. Votes: 0

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. Votes: 0

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming. Votes: 0

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Votes: 0

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Votes: 0

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary. Votes: 0

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Votes: 0

I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference. Votes: 0

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. Votes: 0

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. Votes: 0

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. Votes: 0

The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. Votes: 0

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence. Votes: 0

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. Votes: 0

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary! Votes: 0

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary. Votes: 0

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure. Votes: 0

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary. Votes: 0

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. Votes: 0

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. Votes: 0

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching. Votes: 0

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. Votes: 0

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. Votes: 0

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within. Votes: 0

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. Votes: 0

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her. Votes: 0

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. Votes: 0

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. Votes: 0

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given Votes: 0

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. Votes: 0

We often don't realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people. Votes: 0

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. Votes: 0

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me Votes: 0

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count. Votes: 0

An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God. Votes: 0

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which. Votes: 0

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. Votes: 0

An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial! Votes: 0

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. Votes: 0

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity. Votes: 0

Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place. Votes: 0

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary. Votes: 0

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. Votes: 0

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. Votes: 0

All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life. Votes: 0

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. Votes: 0

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Votes: 0

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. Votes: 0

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. Votes: 0

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary. Votes: 0

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people. Votes: 0

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Votes: 0

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it. Votes: 0

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes. Votes: 0

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. Votes: 0

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. Votes: 0

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary. Votes: 0

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. Votes: 0

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary. Votes: 0

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. Votes: 0

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. Votes: 0

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. Votes: 0

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. Votes: 0

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course. Votes: 0

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference. Votes: 0

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism. Votes: 0

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Votes: 0

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Votes: 0

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Votes: 0

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary. Votes: 0

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. Votes: 0

Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results. Votes: 0

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. Votes: 0

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. Votes: 0

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. Votes: 0

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. Votes: 0

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space. Votes: 0

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. Votes: 0

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life. Votes: 0

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary! Votes: 0

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. Votes: 0

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows. Votes: 0

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things Votes: 0

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. Votes: 0

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well. Votes: 0

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job. Votes: 0

What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Votes: 0

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary? Votes: 0

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves. Votes: 0

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. Votes: 0

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal. Votes: 0

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. Votes: 0

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. Votes: 0

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary. Votes: 0

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary. Votes: 0

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey. Votes: 0

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself. Votes: 0

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. Votes: 0

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity. Votes: 0

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'. Votes: 0

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary. Votes: 0

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. Votes: 0

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... Votes: 0

Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that. Votes: 0

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary. Votes: 0

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary. Votes: 0

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. Votes: 0

Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary. Votes: 0

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique. Votes: 0

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary. Votes: 0

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow. Votes: 0

It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary. Votes: 0

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory. Votes: 0

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others. Votes: 0

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated. Votes: 0

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. Votes: 0

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history. Votes: 0

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity. Votes: 0

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. Votes: 0

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. Votes: 0

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time. Votes: 0

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look. Votes: 0

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me. Votes: 0

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments. Votes: 0

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. Votes: 0

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments. Votes: 0

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well. Votes: -1

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one. Votes: -1

There is nothing ordinary in life because life itself is mystical, magical, and extraordinary. Votes: -1

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. Votes: -1