Top 100 Ordinary Extraordinary Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ordinary Extraordinary

#1. Time makes the ordinary extraordinary and the extraordinary ordinary.

#2. 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.

Shmuley Boteach

#3. When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!

John C. Maxwell

#4. Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

Ricky Gervais

#5. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

#6. Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

Magdalen Nabb

#7. The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

Dean Stanley

#8. The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Austin O'Malley

#9. Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#10. Take a little time to make ordinary things extraordinary.

Emilie Barnes

#11. I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Ransom Riggs

#12. If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense of poverty. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary.

Natalie Goldberg

#13. There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

William Halsey

#14. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#15. The lesser your achievements the lesser your critics.
The greater your achievements the greater your critics.
Ordinary achievements attract ordinary admirers.
Extraordinary achievements attract extraordinary admirers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Patricia Stephens Due

#17. It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

George Will

#18. 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.

Ranbir Kapoor

#19. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

Patrick Ness

#20. I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

Elon Musk

#21. The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Peter Drucker

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

Jean Vanier

#23. Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

#24. Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

Amedee Ozenfant

#25. Be an ordinary person with extraordinary heart

Inda Kusumawati

#26. A witch, a term created by those with no concept of what I am, is nothing more than an ordinary person with an extraordinary capability. We're just like everyone else."

Jeanne Adams

#27. Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body
and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands
that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.

Frederick William Robertson

#28. I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

Philip Yancey

#29. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

#30. The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.

Albert Schweitzer

#31. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#32. It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

#33. 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.

Alan Brennert

#34. I had always thought that if I just did something extraordinary enough, then people would like me. But that wasn't true. You will drive away everyone by being extraordinary ... . But you, you will never learn your lesson. The world embraces ordinary. The world will never embrace you.

Leila Sales

#35. Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Roger Von Oech

#36. A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an ordinary life can be reflected in an extraordinary movie.

Richard Corliss

#37. One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

Pam Farrel

#38. The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

G.K. Chesterton

#39. All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

Brian Perkins

#40. Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

Gilles Deleuze

#41. Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

Bernie Sanders

#42. Ordinary people who walk with an extraordinary God of grace and power, really can make a difference in other as yet unreached lives.

Ross Paterson

#43. If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

Tyler Perry

#44. You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.

H.L. Burke

#45. I'm just an ordinary woman who has somehow managed to do some extraordinary things!

Fiona Roberts

#46. Life at times, gives the most unexpected and shocking outcome for the most ordinary person, leading to extraordinary tales.

Arvind Parashar

#47. The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.

Liane Moriarty

#48. When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Jon Gordon

#49. We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#50. A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.

Ingibjorg N. Frid

#51. I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Ransom Riggs

#52. I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Rob Lowe

#53. Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Donna Summer

#54. Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.

Joanne Van Leerdam

#55. Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Lisa See

#56. Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Samuel Mockbee

#57. When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Dougray Scott

#58. The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

Robin S. Sharma

#59. There is nothing called 'Extraordinary', it is just the way the World defines an 'ordinary' man or woman , who has recognized his own 'power to achieve' the IMPOSSIBLE ! Let us be ORDINARY, but an 'aware' ordinary , aware of our own selves !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#60. Champions don't do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they've learned.

Charles Duhigg

#61. To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Frank McKinney

#62. Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Leonard Mlodinow

#63. Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

Michael Josephson

#64. All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

Clive James

#65. We have a way of making the most extraordinary experience ordinary.
We actually work at destroying our miracles ...

Duane Michals

#66. 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 ...

Nicholas Sparks

#67. That's the point. People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary. That's why those moments are all forgotten, counted as nothing. It's a terrible loss.

Ann Tatlock

#68. Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.

Deborah Sandella

#69. Turns out any ordinary place can be made extraordinary by the presence of the right person.

Aaron Hartzler

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

Tom Kelley

#71. Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Joe Biden

#72. A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.

Emilio Estevez

#73. We've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends us out into the world to love and serve others in ordinary callings.

Michael S. Horton

#74. Why be ordinary when you can be extraordinary?

Alan Dapre

#75. It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.

Nathan Hill

#76. I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

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

Eve Arnold

#78. Via doesn't see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn't feel like she needs to protect me that much. And mom and dad doesn't see me as ordinary, either. They see me as extraordinary. I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.

R.J. Palacio

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

Mason Cooley

#80. But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!

Elizabeth George

#81. The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Brian Greene

#82. What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

Jody Williams

#83. The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Tahir Shah

#84. The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Piero Scaruffi

#85. The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

Robin Sharma

#86. 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.

Claire Cameron

#87. The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Graham Swift

#88. The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

Chris Van Allsburg

#89. And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.

Barack Obama

#90. We should learn how to differentiate between ordinary and extraordinary persons . Not losing the precious ones !

Walaa WalkademAgmal

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

Warren Buffett

#92. It simply did not occur to her that she had hurt him as deeply as she had, because she still thought of herself as an ordinary woman, and him as an extraordinary man.

Arundhati Roy

#93. Needed the very famous actor to know that you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. But

Rachel Joyce

#94. God's use of the ordinary to bring about the extraordinary is as much in evidence here in the early events of Exodus as anywhere in Scripture. His tendency to bring about his will through ordinary items, ordinary people, and ordinary events is no less at work today than it was in Jochebed's.

Ann Spangler

#95. All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful ...

Sogyal Rinpoche