„A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.“

— Barack Obama

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„What an extraordinary achievement. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. What a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.“
— Barack Obama
„i>The infuriating thing about an individual way of living. People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.“
— Joseph Campbell
„Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and then become more extraordinary because of it.“
— John C. Maxwell
„We know that progress can always be reversed, and that positive change is achieved not through passion alone, but through patient and persistent effort. But we’ve seen things change for the better in this region and around the world because of the effort of ordinary people, together -- working together.“
— Barack Obama
„Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.“
— Jodi Picoult