Quotes About Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things

#1. Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Daryn Kagan

#2. It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.

Ashwin Sanghi

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

Eve Arnold

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.

Claire Denis

#8. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

Barack Obama

#9. In every time, in every culture, ordinary people have done extraordinary things.

M.R. Neer

#10. Sometimes ordinary people are destined for extraordinary lives.

Dannika Dark

#11. There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

Brad Brown

#12. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.

Brene Brown

#13. 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

#14. The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

Zeljko Ivanek

#15. It's about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.

Farshad Asl

#17. The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.

Robert Dessaix

#18. I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Walter Lord

#19. Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be
EXTRAORDINARY.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. And what some people don't understand was that bleeding wasn't a sign of weakness; it was a sign of strength. It demonstrated to the world that you were vulnerable and ordinary, but when you wanted something enough, and fought hard for it, you were capable of doing extraordinary things.

Natasha Ngan

#21. Ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

Richard Goldman

#22. There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Neal Shusterman

#23. Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. 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

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

Phil Gramm

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

Mary Robinette Kowal

#27. 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

#28. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Patricia Stephens Due

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

Elon Musk

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Roger Von Oech

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Tyler Perry

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Robin S. Sharma

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Tom Kelley

#44. 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