Mediocrity Quotes

We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.

~ Matthew Kelly

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends.

~ Debasish Mridha

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.

~ Charlotte Brontë

EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nährte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

~ Bertolt Brecht

The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity.

~ Keith Allan Moore

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

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning, or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

~ Criss Jami

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

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.

~ 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

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

~ 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

Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

~ Sarah Vowell

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.

~ Anthony Corlisatra

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

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

~ Gustave Flaubert

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

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

~ Alain De Botton

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