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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
William Arthur Ward
Thanksgiving
Gratitude
Change
Joy
Opportunities
Jobs
Days
Blessings
Common
Transform
Ordinary
Turn
Routine
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Great
Intelligence
Small Minds
Extraordinary
Minds
Great Minds
Small
Concerned
Ordinary
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
Jody Williams
You
Change
People
World
Mother
Down
Think
Change The World
Circles
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Archbishop
Mythology
Like
Around
Mother Teresa
Still
Go
Up
Up And Down
Contribute
Mandela
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Lives
Desmond
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
You
Will
Settle
Willing
Risk
Unusual
Ordinary
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
You
Change
Bird
Fly
Indefinitely
Sight
Bad
Must
Would
Would-Be
Hatched
Remaining
Jolly
Like
Learn
Go
Egg
Eggs
May
Just
Decent
Being
Cannot
Ordinary
While
Turn
Hard
Harder
Present
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
Strength
Hero
Overwhelming
Finds
Spite
Individual
Obstacles
Persevere
Endure
Ordinary
Who
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Hero
Minutes
He
Longer
Five
Than
Brave
Braver
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Truth
Myself
Great
Me
Trust
World
Ocean
Before
Finding
Prettier
Seem
Only
Diverting
Lay
Like
Know
Shell
Boy
Smoother
Been
Undiscovered
Than
May
Ordinary
Whilst
Then
Appear
Seashore
Now
Now And Then
Playing
Pebble
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
Inspirational
Life
Love
Hope
Value
Every
Extraordinary
Promise
Point
Inestimable
Human
Ordinary
Human Life
Your
Acts
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
Freedom
Democracy
People
Law
Police
Dictatorship
Tyranny
Secret
Rule
Rule Of Law
Given
Same
Anytime
Ordinary
Anywhere
Ordinary People
Choice
Choose
Chance
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
You
Soul
Taken
Real
Precious
Precious Things
Stolen
Infinitely
Cannot
Ordinary
Riches
Your
Things
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton
Integrity
Vision
Will
Daring
Be Different
Purpose
Impractical
Different
Anything
Ordinary
Against
Commonplace
Assert
Creatures
Slaves
Imaginative
Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.
Robin S. Sharma
Life
Day
Every Day
Smart
Few
Personal Life
Every
Extraordinary
Everything
Consistently
Small
Taking
Steps
Making
Doing
Left
Greatness
Personal
Ordinary
Against
Little
Chips
Your
Professional
Each
Eventually
Things
If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
Florence Nightingale
Life
Service
God
You
Woman
Strange
My Life
Nothing
Tell
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
Ability
See
Give
Could
He
How
Been
His
Led
Very
Done
Paths
Information
Ordinary
If I Could
Show
Her
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Isaac Newton
Success
Me
Only
Powers
Ordinary
Application
Brings
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman
History
People
Free
Unleashed
Way
System
Enterprise
Record
Free Enterprise
Free Enterprise System
Absolutely
Clear
Crystal
Alternative
Discovered
Lot
Improving
Candle
Hold
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Far
Productive
Activities
In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.
Trudie Styler
Bullying
Being Ignored
Evil
Too
Way
Hugely
Often
Being
Ordinary
Ignored
Therefore
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
Jennifer Garner
Happiness
Smile
Day
Sunset
Joy
Mother
Car
Beauty
Big
Own
Kids
Responsible
Finding
See
About
Insisted
Small
Voice
Take
She
Make
Talked
Big Believer
Always
Hear
Stop
Being
Ordinary
Really
Your
Being Responsible
Moments
Believer
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Truth
Myself
Great
Me
World
Ocean
Before
Finding
Prettier
Seem
Only
Diverting
Lay
Like
Know
Shell
Boy
Smoother
Been
Undiscovered
Than
May
Ordinary
While
Then
Appear
Seashore
Now
Now And Then
Playing
Pebble
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John W. Gardner
Extraordinarily
Excellence
Well
Doing
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Things
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
John Roberts
Government
Day
Constitution
Every Day
Abuse Of Power
Too Much
Power
Every
Too
Those
Ensuring
No-One
Abuse
Protect
American
Authority
Ordinary
Against
Much
Helps
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.
Heinrich Himmler
Wish
State
Citizens
Guns
Having
Join
Firearms
Germans
Ordinary
Should
Use
Who
Serve
Need
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
Art
Saying
People
Words
Extraordinary
About
Something
Discovering
Ordinary
Literature
Ordinary People
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
Work
Technology
Man
Men
Extraordinary
Machine
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Ordinary Men
Fifty
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
Kristin Armstrong
Stillness
Shifting
Waters
Extraordinary
Chaos
Everything
Way
Strive
Dive
Only
Counteract
Feel
Surface
Quieter
Ordinary
Moving
Deeper
Things
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
Myself
Man
Goodness
Believe
Others
Given
Develop
Talent
Am
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Worked
Hard
Who
Believed
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