It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always…

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 to point…

— Matthew Kelly

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

— Colin Powell

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

— Charles de Foucauld

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

— Roberto Benigni

“Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You’ll avoid the tough decisions, and you’ll avoid confronting the people who…

— Timothy Ferriss

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

— Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

I work out sort of moderately.

— Lara Stone

I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun,…

— Kyle MacLachlan

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love…

— Charles Darwin

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

— Hanna Rosin

As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So…

— James Rothman

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have…

— Allen Covert

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

— Miguel de Cervantes