Mediocrity Quotes
Mediocrity Quote of the day
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.