Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Far from the Madding Crowd

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

If you want to change the climate of your marriage immediately, start praying for your spouse

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.

Adequate: How God Empowers Ordinary People to Serve

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another. ("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1)

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

The purest joys are available to all of us, and they're unrelated to status, recognition, or material desires.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN

Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

Jonathan Stroud

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain m...

The Just and the Unjust

A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who foll...

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World