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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 Endure

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 Day Small Smart

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

Smile Beauty Mother Happiness

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.

Change Fly Bird You

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.

Good Family Myself Home

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

William Arthur Ward

Change Gratitude Blessings Joy

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

Sonia Sotomayor

Blessed I Am Person Opportunities

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Good Yourself Opportunity Self

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.

Myself Me Great Truth

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

Mary McGarry Morris

Life Simple Live Simple Life

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Hero Brave He Than

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

Work Hard Work Success Perseverance

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

You Chance Will Risk

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

Moving Feel Way Chaos

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader People Judge Aim

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

Opportunity People Rise Rise Above

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.

Me Equality Problems Direction

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

Day Boring Bold Shy

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Freedom Democracy People Police

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.

Me You Pollution Choices

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.

Things Paint Like Happen

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

H. P. Lovecraft

Love Good Children Cats

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

Work Technology Man Men

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Howard Rheingold

Voting Democracy Understanding Your

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

Success Me Only Application Brings

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

Great Intelligence Small Minds

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