Words matter. These are the best Ordinary Man Quotes from famous people such as Elbert Hubbard, Graham Greene, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Orwell, Rodrigo Duterte, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
I am just an ordinary man.
India’s middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be.
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.
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.
I am an ordinary man.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
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.
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.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Genius… is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
An 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.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
It’s really strange, but I find a connect with Shivaji Raje through Rajinikanth. Rajini sir is born a Marathi, he’s a superstar in Tamil film industry and a national icon too. He started his life as an ordinary man and reached the pinnacle. This is how Shivaji Raje’s life also traversed from common to extraordinary.
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.
