Mediocre Quotes

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain, the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

All people are standing, you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds, you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less, rise up and stand tall in what you do!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived, it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially, later making a leather shoe, then later making a leather shoe with gold medal on top and then making a golden shoe with diamond medal on top, going to make a real diamond shoe!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The adjuration to be normal seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of normal to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.

~ Karl Menninger

Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is too precious and short to dare to waste it on mediocre dreams.

~ Hafiz

The lack of limitless positive imagination has undoubtedly led many people with great potential to settle for a mediocre state of living.

~ Hafiz

Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

~ Manoj Arora

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people

~ Sunday Adelaja

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results.

~ Steven Redhead

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

~ Jean Giraudoux