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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve

Strength, Hero, Obstacles, Individual

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. William Arthur Ward

Change, Gratitude, Joy, Thanksgiving

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero, Man, Brave, Minutes, Five, Than

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem. Anne Frank

Family, Good, Home, Friend, Time, Myself

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary. Robin S. Sharma

Life, Greatness, Day, Smart, Doing

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve

Strength, Hero, Obstacles, Think, Endure

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - John W. Gardner

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John W. Gardner

Excellence, Doing, Things, Well

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

Art, Words, People, Saying, Literature

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis

Change, Bird, Fly, Present, You, Bad

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. Henry Ossawa Tanner

Art, Mind, Artist, You, Spot, Would

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. Mary McGarry Morris

Life, Live, Simple, Simple Life, Quiet

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. - Isaac Newton

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. Isaac Newton

Success, Me, Only, Powers, Application

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. Khaled Hosseini

Family, Life, Live, Simple, Enjoy

If you're different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that's so dope. Kylie Jenner

Weird, Think, You, Dope, Different, Out

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

Truth, Great, Ocean, Myself, Me, World

The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will. Chai Jing

Me, Choices, Pollution, You, Earth, Will

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn

Chance, You, Risk, Will, Settle, Unusual

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

Opportunity, People, Rise Above, Rise

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. Jennifer Garner

Beauty, Smile, Mother, Happiness, Car

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. Alice Paul

Me, Equality, Direction, Problems, Never

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. Daryn Kagan

War, People, World, Doing, Bad, Natural

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton

Integrity, Vision, Purpose, Be Different

In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned. Trudie Styler

Bullying, Evil, Way, Being Ignored, Too

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters. Kristin Armstrong

Chaos, Moving, Stillness, Feel, Way

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

Today, Blessed, I Am, Opportunities, Who

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. - Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal

Great, Intelligence, Small, Minds

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