“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”
Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (14 May 2008)
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Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910–2008Related quotes
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
Disputed
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Context: It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things — extraordinary, but not confusing. He merely had two bodies which were as integrated as his two hands had been.
“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”
Source: UnWholly
“Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. ”
“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”
“The extraordinary patience of things!”
"Carmel Point"
Context: The extraordinary patience of things!
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses —
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing...
“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”