“Greatness is for those who work for it, Mediocrity is for those who accept it.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C. S. Lewis 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
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
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
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
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity,… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked,… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate… — Edward S. Jordan Copy Share Image
“Mediocrity doesn’t always mean underperforming—it’s a sliding scale and a state of mind. It means settling in and succumbing to stasis. Mediocrity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“That 'power grab' of Netflix has only led to an incridible amount of horrendous mediocrity. They should simply have focussed on collecting… — Martijn Benders Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am aiming for greatness because being good sometimes it's just not good enough. — London Mond Copy Share Image
That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa — Monica Denise Brown Copy Share Image
