Mediocrity Quotes · Page 10

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Tim Fargo

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

— Oscar Wilde

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

— Gillian Anderson

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Sunday Adelaja

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

— Warren G. Bennis

“All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less;…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

— Isaac D'Israeli

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

— Ani DiFranco

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

— John Stuart Mill

“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.

— Dick Vitale

“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.”

— Kathy Acker

“The people on television scoffing and laughing at mediocrity - they are the real mediocrity.”

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“Don’t be retarded; excellence is “status quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty…

— Bobby Miller

You don't hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that they'll make a valuable contribution and…

— Kathryn Minshew

My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington…

— Howard Schultz

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The movie creaked along, obvious and mediocre plot. Mediocre script, mediocre music. They ought to have sealed the thing in a time…

— Haruki Murakami

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to…

— Russell Brand

We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting…

— Hal Elrod

Suddenly feeling like your life's out-of-control, can be the worst feeling. Like things are coming at you from all directions.. total chaos..…

— Kenneth W Griffin

“Even though copying what’s come before is a guaranteed path to mediocrity, it appears to be a safe choice, and the desire…

— Ed Catmull

Your entire life begins to change the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you decide…

— Hal Elrod

Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends…

— Frank Turner

“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature…

— Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of…

— George Eliot

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,…

— Anonymous

Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these…

— Bob Richards

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

— Mason Cooley

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

— Marie Corelli

All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity.

— Simon And Garfunkel

“Mediocrity To Cavalry: A Life Not Lived Chasing After The Wind”

— Rizwan Niaz Raiyan

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

— Richard M. Nixon

You always admire what you really dont understand.

— Blaise Pascal

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

— Eric Thomas