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
“I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The ‘easy way’ is our laziness trying to find a solution by ‘working hard’ to side-step the problem.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to… — Edi Rama Copy Share Image
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity. — Martin de Maat Copy Share Image
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle… — charlie huston Copy Share Image
“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.” — Ryan Lilly 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
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
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I have always tried for quality in everything I do. I don't have a problem with that; I have a problem with… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. — C. K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
