Mediocrity Quotes

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

~ Murad S. Shah

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

~ David Ault

Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don’t call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?

~ Otis Webb Brawley

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.

~ Suleman Abdullah

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

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Mediocrity is always in a rush, but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

~ Amelia E. Barr

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

~ Gustave Flaubert

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of 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

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

~ Frank Herbert

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute.

~ Shobhaa Dé

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.

~ Tim Fargo

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.

~ Tim Fargo

It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?

~ Sarah Schulman

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves ofhuman mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whosedams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart breaks! O Lord, pity theChristian who doubts, the sceptic who would believe, the convict oflife embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined bythe consoling beacons of ancient faith.

~ Joris-Karl Huysmans

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

~ Jeb Bush

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

~ David Bowie

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

~ William Hurt

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

~ J. K. Simmons

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

We live in an age of mediocrity.

~ Lauren Bacall

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

~ Dick Cavett

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

~ Max Beerbohm

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

~ John Stuart Mill

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

~ Ambrose Bierce