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A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity ... — Robert Schumann

Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity. — Kim Holden

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. — Jeb Bush

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mediocrity is contextual. — David Foster Wallace

The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.
- Serious Men — Manu Joseph

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity — Theodosius Dobzhansky

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity. — Nick Bantock

Don't embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off ... Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey! — Israelmore Ayivor

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

i was poised for greatness, but the poising game me a cramp so i have instead just settled for comfortable mediocrity... (Vimrod # 4904) — Ralph Lazar

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute. — Shobhaa De

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions. — Gustave Flaubert

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mediocrity always attacks excellence — Michael Beckwith

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. — Rene Magritte

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. — Henry S. Haskins

Defending mediocrity is exhausting. — Seth Godin

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. — Oscar Wilde

They were people who believed that mediocrity was safe. — Ayn Rand

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity. — Michael Eisner

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. — William Hurt

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everything about mediocrity kills me. — Ivanka Trump

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Had you been able to guess bits of my destiny,
Perhaps you would bear your mediocrity with more ease. — Czeslaw Milosz

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. — Blaise Pascal

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day. — Seth Godin

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. — Joseph Joubert

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity. — Bryant McGill

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. — Sarah Vowell

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity. — Brian Tracy

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. — Joseph Heller

MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION — Marsha Wright

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

Mediocrity is Death. — Suleman Abdullah

It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world. — Miriam A. Walker

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity. — Seth Godin

Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character? — Stendhal

Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre... — Assegid Habtewold

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

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. — Fred Allen

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. — Paulo Coelho

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn

Whatever it is that you do, you are making a stand, either for excellence or for mediocrity. — Brandon Webb

Mediocrity is not worth the trip. — Sergio Marchionne

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity. — Edgard Varese

What right have such men to represent Christianity - as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly? — George Eliot

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency. — James C. Collins

We live in an age of mediocrity. — Lauren Bacall

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity. — Andrew Keen

She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life. — Christos Tsiolkas

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity. — Alex Bogusky

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore De Balzac

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it. — Haruki Murakami

Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different! — Dita Von Teese

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. — Fran Tarkenton

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity. — Jean De La Bruyere

We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity. — H.M. Forester

When you tolerate mediocrity, you get more of it. — Frank Sonnenberg

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. — Nicolas Chamfort

The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity. — Patrick Lencioni

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it. — Rory Vaden

Life without madness is mediocrity. — Nelou Keramati

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. — Armand Assante

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired. — J. Oswald Sanders

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move. — Shannon L. Alder

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis

Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort — Manoj Arora

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king! — Jay Electronica

Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. — Norman Vincent Peale

A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity;
a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. — Marie Corelli

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. — Walter Russell

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. — Seth Godin

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

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure. — Johnnetta B. Cole

We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles. — Albert Camus

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends. — Debasish Mridha

Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity. — Angela Lynne Craig

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity. — Robin Sharma

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence. — Matthew Kelly

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer

Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity. — Will Smith

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. — Roberto Benigni

EACH OF US IS BORN INTO GENIUS. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity. — Robin S. Sharma

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change! — Israelmore Ayivor

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity ... are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. — James C. Collins

Caution is the path to mediocrity. — Frank Herbert

Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities. — Yaron Brook

Mediocrity will be conquered when we become more of who we are and more like who we were. — Robert J. Braathe