Uncommon Man Quotes

#1. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

#2. The only way to cull the uncommon man from the common is with his clothes off.

Paula Wall

#3. People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Arlo Guthrie

#4. The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

Booker T. Washington

#5. You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Herb Brooks

#6. The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

Howard Schwartz

#8. The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

Baba Amte

#9. Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Charles Dickens

#10. No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

Dave Ramsey

#11. A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Confucius

#12. I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.

Corbin Bernsen

#13. Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-

Ralph Ellison

#14. It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Nancy Astor

#15. And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.

Geraldine Brooks

#16. The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

#17. Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Joseph Addison

#18. Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#19. Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

Tony Dungy

#20. A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

#21. There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

John Steinbeck

#22. The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Hector Hugh Munro

#23. Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.

Richard Jefferies

#24. I have already given some account of the Steppenwolf's outward appearance. He gave at the very first glance the impression of a significant, an uncommon, and unusually gifted man. His

Hermann Hesse

#25. If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Henry Ward Beecher

#26. They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.
("Kentucky's Ghost")

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#27. Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll