Best 26 quotes in «uncommon quotes» category

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.

He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape.

Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon; sand is worthless because it is common; be yourself and you will be a diamond.

If you overvalue the uncommon, you spoil the uncommon and it begins to think of itself as something very precious! Don’t forget, a three-leaf clover is as valuable as the five-leaf-clover!

Do what is uncommon; do it in the uncommon way

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

Things that will make you unstoppable; Get the naysayers out of your life, Take charge of your destiny, Be uncommon, Be relentless, and Never look backwards.

The world needs them - the ones who absorb the emotions of others, which diminishes their pain and disquietude and the world also uses them as a repository for confessions, secrets, grudges and indignation. They will leave these uncommon and intuitive individuals feeling unburdened themselves while the unusual individual will be weighed down by having taken on those burdens in addition to their own. The world needs them but what they need is something as aberrant as themselves, and that is silence, stillness and rest.

The view from the mountaintop is reserved for the uncommon man.

To feel common after a common cold is quite uncommon.

To succeed we need commitment, discipline, dedication, and determination. And if you can amalgamate all of the above qualities with your passion and energy then no one can stop you from achieving the uncommon!

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom.

What a strange time we lived in where tragedy and uncertainty swept up common people like me and the most uncommon person in the world in the same moment. Tragedy and uncertainty are both things of which no one is immune. Not even dragons.