In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. — John Loeffler Copy Share Image
Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved. — Seth Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling. - Serious Men” — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if… — Mark R. Woodward Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
“Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don’t call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of… — Otis Webb Brawley Copy Share Image
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics,… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
“It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I have talked with many pastors whose real struggle isn’t first with the hardship of ministry, the lack of appreciation and involvement… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
