Quotes About Be Extraordinary

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We must overcome the notion that we must be regular ... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Uta Hagen

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

Elon Musk

#5. The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary.

Ted Nicholas

#6. It's all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary.

Francis Bacon

#7. Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

Julia Kristeva

#8. Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

Shelby Lynne

#9. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

Joy Williams

#10. Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

Kate Mosse

#11. I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.

Ranbir Kapoor

#12. As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

Jim Butcher

#13. Not all of our days could be extraordinary. But our lives still could be.

Erin Mckittrick

#14. It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.

Lynne Cox

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

Alan Dapre

#16. Ah," said Florence, grimly. "A woman has to be extraordinary, she can't just do things as though she had a right. You have to get better marks than the Senior Wrangler, and still you can't have a degree.

A.S. Byatt

#17. 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

#18. Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris gets in our way.

Sy Montgomery

#19. He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Dean Koontz

#20. When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough.

Renae A. Sauter

#21. Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.

Mark Sanborn

#22. Forget normal." He grinned. "We're going to be extraordinary.

Claudia Gray

#23. As a whole, people suck," I replied. "But a person can be extraordinary.

Jim Butcher

#24. If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.

Baltasar Gracian

#26. if you want to be extraordinary, the first thing you have to do is stop being ordinary.

Juli Baldwin

#27. For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

Diane Setterfield

#28. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.

Cassandra Clare

#29. I would rather be average and wise than be extraordinary and imprudent.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#30. If you like
I'll be furious flesh elemental,
or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like-
I'll be extraordinary gentle,
not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#31. Forget normal, we're going to be extraordinary
-Lucas

Claudia Gray

#32. We where not put on this earth to be ordinary, we where created to be extraordinary.

Frederick Owen

#33. To be extraordinary is to accept and embrace repeated failings, recover as quickly as possible; that is let go of all your reasons and excuses to justify the failing; then move on to carry out your

Jack Schropp

#34. We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Don Yaeger

#35. When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Timothy Ferriss

#36. Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#37. I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

Peter O'Toole

#38. I'll be a great doctor with excellent bedside skills.
I'll be perfectly happy.
But something about Natasha makes me think my life could be extraordinary.

Nicola Yoon

#39. Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

#40. You have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

Elfriede Jelinek

#41. What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

Aminatta Forna

#42. I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

Patch Adams

#43. America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Nelson Rockefeller

#44. It was almost a relief, no longer having to be extraordinary. To give up on existential questioning and simply abide.

Robin Wasserman

#45. The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

Francis Ford Coppola

#46. To attract the wise,
you have to be shrewd.
To attract the skilled,
you have to be talented.
To attract the creative,
you have to be ingenious.
To attract the great,
you have to be extraordinary.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#47. If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#48. Human tragedies:
We all want to be extraordinary
and we all just want to fit in.
Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

Sebastyne Young

#49. Everyday can be extraordinary
And ripe,
Like a flower burst,
If the will is there.

Scott Hastie

#50. We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

Gloria Steinem

#51. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Jonathan Franzen

#52. It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.

David Harewood

#53. Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#54. Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.

Andrew Lang

#55. 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

Dan Stevens

#56. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#57. So often one thinks that individuals and situations cannot be so extraordinary as they seem from outside: only to find that the truth is a thousand times odder.

Anthony Powell

#58. I'm a coward, January. I'm not sure if I can handle another heartbreak and I know if I fell for you, I'd fall so hard there'd be no coming back from it. You're extraordinary.

Fisher Amelie

#59. If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#60. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Alan Blinder

#61. I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.

Jane Pauley

#62. NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

Peter Diamandis

#63. A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

H.L. Mencken

#64. I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Angelina Jolie

#65. We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

Peter O'Toole

#66. My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

Ronee Blakley

#67. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Jill Robinson

#68. You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Justin Trudeau

#69. To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .

Lindsay Lohan

#70. If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Romeo LeBlanc

#71. I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

Tony Goldwyn

#72. Everything of who I was and who I wanted to be had been evicted to make room for this disease.

Robyn Schneider

#73. Be an ordinary person with extraordinary heart

Inda Kusumawati

#74. I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Miliband

#75. When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists. So, a revision to the "You-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be" maxim might be more accurate: You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a lot more of who you already are.

Tom Rath

#76. Tension demands release. Unusual tension demands release that can only be described as appalling.

Garth Ennis

#77. You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

Mother Teresa

#78. The whole extraordinary business was over. And I was back where I belonged, where my childhood had condemned me to be, alone, out in the cold without a coat.

Iris Murdoch

#79. 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

#80. You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Judy Holliday

#81. The extraordinary and unique quality of the disabled body, I argue, can be seen not only as resisting identification but also, and conversely, as providing a symbolic and actual basis on which to structure a system of identification that seeks to fix individual bodily identity.

Ellen Samuels

#82. The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

Leslie Ludy

#83. Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

Paul Verhoeven

#84. 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

#85. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

Jon Favreau

#86. 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

#87. Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet:
She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

Janet Aylmer

#88. In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

Jerry Saltz

#89. How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

Keith Carter

#90. 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

#91. Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Tyler Perry

#93. 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

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

Ransom Riggs

#95. the most extraordinary ideas come from children," the queen said. "If only we all could be so perceptive, we would find the simplest solutions to the greatest problems are right under our noses.

Chris Colfer

#96. It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#97. I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.

David Bowie

#98. I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

Angela Lansbury

#99. 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

#100. 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