“Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work,… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
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… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
A plate of food hits the table, lands right in front of you. One of two things happens. Either you sit up… — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of… — Buck Rodgers Copy Share Image
It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework.… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should… — Bruce Henderson Copy Share Image
The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought… — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
“As long as you allow mediocrity to be the height of your enthusiasm, as long as you allow it to be the… — C. Sean McGee Copy Share Image
How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
