Mediocre Quotes · Page 18

“You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

— Horace

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

— Anonymous

There is only good art and mediocre art.

— Oscar Wilde

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got…

— Dennis Prager

Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

— Dave Draper

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better…

— Eugene Delacroix

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to…

— Claude Monet

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

— Orson Welles

I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where…

— Alex Prager

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

— Aaron Sorkin

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay…

— Ming-Dao Deng

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

— Pope Francis

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

— Anonymous

I don't want to be a mediocre player or average.

— Evan Fournier

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

— Billy Cannon

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

— George Carlin

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

— Anonymous

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture,…

— Christopher Hitchens

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

— Seth Godin

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

— George Clooney

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

— Jean Giraudoux

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that…

— Katherine Paterson

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so…

— John Ortberg

Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

— Francoise Giroud