Jim Valvano Quotes

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.