Extraordinary Men Quotes

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

Matshona Dhliwayo

He had, indeed, one of those advantages which men who had lived and moved in the world enjoy over others, even men of intelligence and refinement, who have never gone into society, namely that they no longer see it transfigured by the longing or repulsion with which it fills the imagination, but regard it as quite unimportant. Their good nature, freed from all taint of snobbishness and from the fear of seeming too friendly, grown independent, in fact, has the ease, the grace of movement of a trained gymnast each of whose supple limbs will carry out precisely the movement that is required without any clumsy participation by the rest of his body.

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

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!

Elizabeth George