Ordinary Quotes

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

~ Oscar Wilde

Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of tastingtomatoes, apples and pears.Show them how to crywhen pets and people die.Show them the infinite pleasurein the touch of a hand.And make the ordinary come alive for them.The extraordinary will take care of itself.

~ William Martin

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows. They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary.

~ Joss Whedon

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

~ Jodi Picoult

Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

~ Nicholas Sparks

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.

~ J. Cornell Michel

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

~ Petar Dunov

God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

~ C.j. Heck

If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.

~ Tommy Newberry

Ordinary will please, but never impress.

~ Avinash Rao

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

~ Mitch Albom

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

~ Charles Bukowski

I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

~ Judith Guest

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

~ Charles Bukowski

We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same

~ Rj Blizzard

To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.

~ Oscar Wilde

Tea with milk and sugar is so ordinary. We want to see a change, feel the necessity to bring colours other than the ordinary, in our lives. We feel liberated, enriched, superior. But we lose a part of nature, the ordinary beautiful essential nature in doing so.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

~ Peter O'toole

Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.

~ Jeffrey Fry

The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

~ Osho

I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You're alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can't relate to you and what you've been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.

~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri

When you are brave enough to see me and accept me at my most basic, uninspired, unremarkable self – indeed, embrace my ordinariness - then, and only then, will you develop eyes to see the extraordinary splendor of my heart.

~ Lashawnda Jones

when there is no sound mind in the society people's thinking and their decisions, don’t always follow the natural flow of logic, because the society and the culture of the land has polluted the minds of ordinary people

~ Sunday Adelaja

It's time for you to start creating some extraordinary things in your life, because there is absolutely nothing ordinary about your mind.

~ Hafiz

In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some long for acceptance while others fear for anything ordinary.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No matter how normal people look, living ordinary lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

~ Amit Kalantri

Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary

~ Tom Schulman

There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She’d wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naïve at times, she wasn’t stupid.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.

~ Dianna Hardy

I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.

~ Dee Williams

How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations, those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for.

~ Dianna Hardy

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

~ Anthony Liccione