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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
,
Spite
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
,
Greatness
,
Smart
,
Small
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero
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Man
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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
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Friend
,
Good
,
Home
,
Time
,
Myself
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
William Arthur Ward
Change
,
Gratitude
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Joy
,
Opportunities
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
Great
,
Truth
,
Myself
,
Ocean
,
Me
,
World
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
Chance
,
You
,
Will
,
Settle
,
Risk
,
Unusual
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
,
Learn
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Isaac Newton
Success
,
Me
,
Only
,
Application
,
Powers
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
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Great
,
Intelligence
,
Small
,
Great Minds
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
Equality
,
Me
,
Direction
,
Problems
,
Never
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.
Ted Hughes
Good
,
Opportunity
,
Fishing
,
Yourself
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
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Day
,
People
,
Selfless
,
Help
,
Neighbors
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
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
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
,
Car
,
Happiness
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt
Art
,
Me
,
Interesting
,
Finding
,
You
,
Way
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
,
Chaos
,
Feel
,
Stillness
,
Way
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
,
Debate
,
See
,
Aim
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
Life
,
Love
,
Inspirational
,
Hope
,
Value
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson
Difference
,
Extraordinary
,
Little
,
Extra
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
,
You
,
Pollution
,
Earth
,
Will
Having realised that in cooking there was a vast field of study and development, I said to myself, 'Although I had not originally intended to enter this profession, since I am in it, I will work in such a fashion that I will rise above the ordinary, and I will do my best to raise again the prestige of the chef de cuisine.'
Auguste Escoffier
Work
,
Cooking
,
Myself
,
Best
,
I Am
,
Chef
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