Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you…

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

— Kevin Gates

“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should…

— Maugham Somerset William

“Always aspire to mediocrity first. If you can do that, you’ll find you’re always moving up in life.”

— Magen Toole

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer…

— Glenn Greenwald

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,…

— Dale Carnegie

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

— Anonymous

“People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but…

— Francis Bacon

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time. I've failed in relationships...and so…

— Katrena Patterson

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

— Mary Pickford

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

— Thomas Hood

One who fears failure limits his activities.

— Henry Ford

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

— Napoleon Hill