Quotes about Mediocrity

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. Votes: 4

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Votes: 4

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. Votes: 4

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. Votes: 4

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Votes: 4

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. Votes: 4

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Votes: 4

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. Votes: 4

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. Votes: 4

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. Votes: 4

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. Votes: 4

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. Votes: 4

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me. Votes: 4

Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other. Votes: 4

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Votes: 4

Mediocrity is underrated. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is contextual. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is a hand-rail. Votes: 3

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals. Votes: 3

Mediocrity always attacks excellence. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is not worth the trip. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul. Votes: 3

Don't Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence Votes: 3

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. Votes: 3

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Votes: 3

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence. Votes: 3

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. Votes: 3

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute. Votes: 3

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. Votes: 3

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity! Votes: 3

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. Votes: 3

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt"”it never comes off. Votes: 3

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. Votes: 3

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment. Votes: 3

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. Votes: 3

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. Votes: 3

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired. Votes: 3

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. Votes: 3

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. Votes: 3

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. Votes: 3

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. Votes: 3

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. Votes: 3

Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow. Votes: 3

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against. Votes: 3

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option! Votes: 3

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon. Votes: 3

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly. Votes: 3

It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing. Votes: 3

Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom. Votes: 3

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me. Votes: 3

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired. Votes: 3

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.” TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO Votes: 3

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence. Votes: 3

Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Votes: 2

Little things affect little minds. Votes: 2

Malice is only another name for mediocrity. Votes: 2

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. Votes: 2

Only the mediocre are always at their best. Votes: 2

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. Votes: 2

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. Votes: 2

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. Votes: 2

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity. Votes: 2

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. Votes: 2

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. Votes: 2

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity. Votes: 2

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. Votes: 2

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. Votes: 2

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. Votes: 2

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. Votes: 2

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. Votes: 2

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. Votes: 2

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. Votes: 2

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. Votes: 2

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. Votes: 2

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Votes: 2

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. Votes: 2

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out. Votes: 2

I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity. Votes: 2

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect. Votes: 2

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Votes: 2

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. Votes: 2

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! Votes: 2

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. Votes: 2

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Votes: 2

Excellent people are those, who choose to separate themselves from mediocrity. Votes: 1

Passionately protest mediocrity. Votes: 0

Only mediocrity escapes criticism. Votes: 0

Defending mediocrity is exhausting. Votes: 0

The only sin is mediocrity. Votes: 0

Our party's most outstanding mediocrity. Votes: 0

Media, the plural of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.... Votes: 0

Everything about mediocrity kills me. Votes: 0

I am incapable of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity. Votes: 0

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Votes: 0

We encourage one another in mediocrity. Votes: 0

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity. Votes: 0

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. Votes: 0

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle. Votes: 0

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity Votes: 0

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. Votes: 0

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity. Votes: 0

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. Votes: 0

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. Votes: 0

The height of mediocrity is still low. Votes: 0

The height of mediocrity is still low Votes: 0

We live in an age of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness. Votes: 0

They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity. Votes: 0

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity. Votes: 0

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. Votes: 0

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity Votes: 0

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity. Votes: 0

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity. Votes: 0

Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity. Votes: 0

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. Votes: 0

To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Votes: 0

I love that the level of mediocrity rises. Votes: 0

For what level of mediocrity will you settle? Votes: 0

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. Votes: 0

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. Votes: 0

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence. Votes: 0

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness. Votes: 0

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity Votes: 0

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity. Votes: 0

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. Votes: 0

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent. Votes: 0

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius. Votes: 0

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation. Votes: 0

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity. Votes: 0

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity. Votes: 0

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity. Votes: 0

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. Votes: 0

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity. Votes: 0

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. Votes: 0

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay... Votes: 0

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order. Votes: 0

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. Votes: 0

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity. Votes: 0

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity Votes: 0

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity? Votes: 0

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity. Votes: 0

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence. Votes: 0

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. Votes: 0

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity. Votes: 0

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Votes: 0

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity Votes: 0

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity. Votes: 0

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. Votes: 0

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 Votes: 0

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend Votes: 0

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time... Votes: 0

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king! Votes: 0

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. Votes: 0

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Votes: 0

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. Votes: 0

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Votes: 0

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity. Votes: 0

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. Votes: 0

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough. Votes: 0

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people. Votes: 0

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Votes: 0

A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity... Votes: 0

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it. Votes: 0

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. Votes: 0

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. Votes: 0

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity. Votes: 0

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence. Votes: 0

the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity Votes: 0

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. Votes: 0

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society Votes: 0

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. Votes: 0

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment. Votes: 0

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity. Votes: 0

Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe. Votes: 0

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. Votes: 0

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius. Votes: 0

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. Votes: 0

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. Votes: 0

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity. Votes: 0

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. Votes: 0

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity. Votes: 0

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure. Votes: 0

Good leaders always bring about transformationBad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity! Votes: 0

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. Votes: 0

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. Votes: 0

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. Votes: 0

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. Votes: 0

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic. Votes: 0

That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa Votes: 0

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity. Votes: 0

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. Votes: 0

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. Votes: 0

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. Votes: 0

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. Votes: 0

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. Votes: 0

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. Votes: 0

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. Votes: 0

Commitment to excellence is a great habit; unfortunately commitment to mediocrity is also a habit. Votes: 0

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. Votes: 0

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity! Votes: 0

You can't think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don't go together. Votes: 0

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. Votes: 0

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Votes: 0

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency. Votes: 0

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity. Votes: 0

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something. Votes: 0

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. Votes: 0

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence? Votes: 0

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time. Votes: 0

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. Votes: 0

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles. Votes: 0

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. Votes: 0

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. Votes: 0

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. Votes: 0

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it. Votes: 0

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. Votes: 0

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. Votes: 0

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. Votes: 0

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? Votes: 0

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Votes: 0

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. Votes: 0

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity. Votes: 0

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. Votes: 0

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity Votes: 0

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. Votes: 0

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. Votes: 0

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life. Votes: 0

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. Votes: 0

Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity. Votes: 0

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life. Votes: 0

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity. Votes: 0

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success. Votes: 0

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. Votes: 0

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents. Votes: 0

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Votes: 0

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. Votes: 0

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists. Votes: 0

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. Votes: 0

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity. Votes: 0

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. Votes: 0

They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. Votes: 0

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. Votes: 0

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity. Votes: 0

No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity. Votes: 0

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. Votes: 0

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. Votes: 0

Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change. Votes: 0

Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten. Votes: 0

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. Votes: 0

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road. Votes: 0

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. Votes: 0

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. Votes: 0

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. Votes: 0

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be. Votes: 0

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. Votes: 0

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it. Votes: 0

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. Votes: 0

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. Votes: 0

In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now! Votes: 0

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. Votes: 0

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. Votes: 0

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble. Votes: 0

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity. Votes: 0

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. Votes: 0

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. Votes: 0

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. Votes: 0

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. Votes: 0

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion. Votes: 0

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling. Votes: 0

All the public systems "“ administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. Votes: 0

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses. Votes: 0

Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and non-committinghands ... Votes: 0

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. Votes: 0

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free. Votes: 0

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity. Votes: 0

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him. Votes: 0

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. Votes: 0

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. Votes: 0

Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Votes: 0

When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity. Votes: 0

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been. Votes: 0

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. Votes: 0

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty. Votes: 0

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness. Votes: 0

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. Votes: 0

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs. Votes: 0

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get. Votes: 0

One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit. Votes: 0

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. Votes: 0

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly. Votes: 0

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night. Votes: 0

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. Votes: 0

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it. Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. Votes: 0

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life. Votes: 0

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life. Votes: 0

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Votes: 0

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made. Votes: 0

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced. Votes: 0

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Votes: 0

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not. Votes: 0

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. Votes: 0

For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me. Votes: 0

You can't talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you've got to think positive. Votes: 0

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. Votes: 0

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out." Votes: 0

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. Votes: 0

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself. Votes: 0

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate. Votes: 0

I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal. Votes: 0

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. Votes: 0

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. Votes: 0

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence. Votes: 0

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. Votes: 0

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. Votes: 0

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common. Votes: 0

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence. Votes: 0

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach. Votes: 0

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished. Votes: 0

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies. Votes: 0

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too. Votes: 0

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals. Votes: 0

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness. Votes: 0

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity. Votes: 0

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard. Votes: 0

We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free. Votes: 0

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself. Votes: 0

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. Votes: 0

We were meant to live courageous and bold lives and not lives of mediocrity. However, we have to live our lives actively and on purpose each day to be unstoppable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe. Votes: 0

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity. Votes: 0

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile. Votes: 0

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail. Votes: 0

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. Votes: 0

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity. Votes: 0

At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent . Votes: 0

I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity. Votes: 0

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity. Votes: 0

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make. Votes: 0

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. Votes: 0

Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical"for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. Votes: 0

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. Votes: 0

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Votes: 0

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Relent not in thy effort to do, when you have to do; for in delay lies mediocrity and in giving up lies perishing; but when the grounds are not ready for landing, hover purposefully. Votes: 0

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish. Votes: 0

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. Votes: 0

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. Votes: 0

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. Votes: 0

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity. Votes: 0

You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb. Votes: 0

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity. Votes: 0