Mediocre Quotes

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

~ Gillian Flynn

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

~ Robert Cormier

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

~ Ryan Lilly

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work

~ Sunday Adelaja

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams, lions have little in common with sheep.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

~ Joris-Karl Huysmans

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.

~ Osho

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Life without madness is mediocrity.

~ Nelou Keramati

Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

~ Pawan Mishra

Break out to go out___________________The birds dare to break the egg shellIt does so in order to get out of that HellWhen it finally succeeds, it’ll then flyTo its comfort zone it’ll say byeAre you being confined in a small spaceHow long will you remain at that place?Before you can explore more territories,Break away from the former glories.Yesterday’s excellence is today’s averageYou must strive to be better age after ageNever accept the available mediocrityAs the only preferable opportunityDecide to grow from below to heroAnd make it a point to vacate level zeroReach out and arise with powerGod’s blessings on you, will showerAgree to grow, never attempt to be slowBe not afraid. Never doubt. You’ll flowThe grace of God will be your guideTaking you along, side by side.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

~ Álvaro De Campos

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

~ Amit Kalantri

The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

~ Daniel Willey

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

~ Criss Jami

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

~ Israelmore Ayivor