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  • September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

  • A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

    Dream   Real   People  
  • What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

    Change   Lakes   People  
    President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.
  • I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

    People   Wish   Might  
  • The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

    Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.
  • The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

  • If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

    Men   Law   Circles  
  • I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

    Life   Children   Women  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

  • People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

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

    God   Faith   Christian  
  • Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

    Real   Thinking   Knowing  
  • I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

    FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Mar 07, 2017
  • 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.

  • The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

    Memories   War   People  
  • The ideals and the values of the United States inspired the entire world. I don't think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same. And part of what we need to do is to send a message to the world that we are going to invest in issues like education, we are going to invest in issues that relate to how ordinary people are able to live out their dreams. And that is something that I'm going to be committed to as president of the United States.

    Source: www.nytimes.com
  • Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 28, 2013
  • Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

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

    Giving Up   Hero   People  
  • The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

  • Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while having relatively small if any positive impacts on bank lending, employment, wages or economic growth, so ordinary people haven't had much help. By the third round of QE in 2012-2014, the effects had likely muted quite a bit. There were probably not big impacts on asset prices from QE and the positive effects on employment growth might have strengthened somewhat.

    Impact   People   Growth  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

  • There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

    Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon
  • The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.

  • There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them

    Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896
  • He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

    Blue   People   Church  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.
  • I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

  • There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

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