Mediocrity Quotes

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.