Mediocrity Best Quotes

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

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

For anybody who loves what they do, mediocrity is not enough. You don't have to be the best in the world, but you should be the best that you can be. — Travis Barker

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man. — Bryce Courtenay

They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity. — Maddy Malhotra

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. — Walter Darby Bannard

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

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim. — Xela Ffonrims

Defending mediocrity is exhausting. — Seth Godin

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. — Eric Ambler

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

It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity. — Chloe Thurlow

Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it "well-roundedness," a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. — Peter Thiel

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. — Nancy Pearcey

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

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

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

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

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. — Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. — Orison Swett Marden

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, — Eddie McGuire

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

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. — Max Beerbohm

Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe. — Paulo Coelho

Mechanization best serves mediocrity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. — Victor J. Banis

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. — Joseph Cook

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life without madness is mediocrity. — Nelou Keramati

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

Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities. — Yaron Brook

Caution is the path to mediocrity. — Frank Herbert

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

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

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

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