Mediocrity Quotes
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Mediocrity Quotes & Sayings
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Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity.
— Kim Holden
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
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
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
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
— Joseph Joubert
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 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
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
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
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
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
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
— Marie Corelli
It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.
— Seth Godin
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
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
— Don Meyer
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
