He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity.… — Uneñ Ameji Copy Share Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Do something remarkable or accept being the mere statistic that you have always been awarded. — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
“my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of… — Mil Millington Copy Share Image
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can work only so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are.… — Shannon l. Alder Copy Share Image
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for… — Abel Bonnard Copy Share Image
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“However, Nick acted as much as possible under the circumstances, and that was rectifying — it brought with it enjoyment and a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
