Paulo Coelho Quotes

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

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.

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

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.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

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.

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

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth.

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.

The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.

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.

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.

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.