Top 100 Quotes About Ordinary Man
#1. Because in that moment, watching and listening, he was profoundly moved that God had seen fit to gift him, an ordinary man, an Indiana boy through and through, with these people in his life.
Kristen Ashley
#2. The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley
#3. An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support. But the Green Lama had held more difficult positions, according to the Yoga, for hours.
Kendell Foster Crossen
#4. Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
#5. Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were his eyes, though the short, neat beard he favored had gone grey. All in all, he was an ordinary man, distinguished only by his love of written words.
George R R Martin
#6. If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.
Helen Maryles Shankman
#7. An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
D.H. Lawrence
#8. Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound
#9. The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
#11. The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, whenever he has a feeling that he ought to do 'x', to say on this ground that he ought to do 'x'.
R.M. Hare
#12. 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
#13. An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
Adyashanti
#14. By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.
John Adams
#15. When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man
Anonymous
#16. This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.
Barry Gifford
#17. A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.
Emily Rodda
#18. I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Muhammad Ali
#19. The ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes
T. S. Eliot
#20. She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It was no ordinary man but the Prince of Light who was asking her to be his bride. And, she thought gloomily, what sacrifice might she have disregarded had his gaze been only for her?
Noriko Ogiwara
#21. A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
Edgar Allan Poe
#22. A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man
Rajneesh
#23. A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#24. The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
William Osler
#25. A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
Graham Greene
#26. The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of them; and third, by relating them to his own personal self. The illumined egoless man is simply aware of them, without any of these other added activities.
Paul Brunton
#27. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
Joseph Campbell
#28. The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#29. The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
George Bernard Shaw
#30. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.
Ramakrishna
#31. The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm
#32. The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
Sri Aurobindo
#33. He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
Cheryl Strayed
#34. I am no longer a Silent Brother," he said. "Only an ordinary man. My name is James, James Carstairs. But everyone calls me Jem.
Cassandra Clare
#35. Men trust an ordinary man because they trust themselves. But men trust a great man because they do not trust themselves. And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.
G.K. Chesterton
#36. Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man
Rex Harrison
#37. When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
Gautama Buddha
#38. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Quinn Loftis
#39. A wound that'd make an ordinary man unconscious, I won't lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won't lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can't allow myself to be ordinary!
Zoro
#40. Ordinary man can try million times..but only a ambitions man try diffrent in million ways ... create new ways to solve existing problems.jj
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Any ordinary man can ... surround himself with two thousand books ... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
#43. Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.
Michael E. Gerber
#44. While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.
Conrad Black
#45. The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
Carlos Castaneda
#46. Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#48. The ordinary man places his life's happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#49. Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.
Matthew Arnold
#50. The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
Harpo Marx
#51. The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
John Fowles
#52. I'm just an ordinary man, but you make me feel like I'm the strongest man in the world. I'm not worthy of the gift of your love, but I promise to work each and every day to become worthy of it." ~ Bobby
Jessie Lane
#53. I am just an ordinary man, who refuses to stay ordinary.
Robin Bhan
#54. He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet of mysteries that was the life of an ordinary man.
Michael Chabon
#55. I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
Peter O'Toole
#56. Don't you d-dare say you're ugly or stupid or worthless. Don't you dare! Y-you're a giant because an ordinary man's body is t-too small for what you are.
Kim Fielding
#57. I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
Ray Davies
#58. It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side ... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.
Margaret E. Knight
#59. My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.
Winston Churchill
#60. It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Loren Eiseley
#61. the lies of the creative artist are truer than the truth of the half-sleeping ordinary man
Malcolm D. Allen
#62. If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah
#63. She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart.
Susannah Spurgeon
#64. The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.
Sarada Devi
#65. For an ordinary man, yes" she had replied. "But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker
Alan Dean Foster
#66. No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
Helen Rowland
#67. The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
Andre Malraux
#68. I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.
Albert Camus
#69. You shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinary man.
Haruki Murakami
#70. Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
Ramana Maharshi
#71. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
John Prine
#72. I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
John Le Carre
#73. The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner
#74. Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.
Nancy E. Turner
#75. A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.
Carlos Castaneda
#76. In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
Giorgio Agamben
#77. A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
Eleanor Dark
#78. Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.
Gisele Freund
#79. Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
George Herbert
#80. I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
Philip K. Dick
#81. He wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while.
Ellen O'Connell
#82. But he did not believe ordinary citizens created art. True art was anomalous; it was a rare mutation. It didn't happen simply because one willed it so. He thought it an utter and exasperating waste of an ordinary man's time.
Lily King
#83. How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night.
T.H. White
#84. I would call him an ordinary man, but, well."
Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement.
Courtney Milan
#85. I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.
Abraham Maslow
#86. The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
#87. War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
Philip Caputo
#88. The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
Benjamin Franklin
#89. I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Nelson Mandela
#90. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
George Orwell
#91. The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#92. People are rotten everywhere you go. They're no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants." Sunja
Min Jin Lee
#93. It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
G.K. Chesterton
#94. I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.
Emile Zola
#96. I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
Brian Dennehy
#97. The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#98. The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell
#99. Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers ...
Richard Bach
#100. The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley
