Mediocrity Quotes · Page 17

“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

— Herbert Hoover

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

— James C. Collins

“They took a ridiculous lack of features, an almost insulting lack of features, and sold that as a benefit – with extraordinary success”

— Jonathan Siegel

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

— James Robertson

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why settle for mediocre if there is even the slightest chance for something amazing? Because you can never settle if you keep…

— Anonymous

“If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.”

— Chila Woychik

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle…

— Cornel West

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to…

— Edi Rama

The worst is being stuck in a quagmire of mediocrity, i.e. things are going reasonably well, but not spectacularly well. The reason…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static,…

— Anonymous

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity…

— Rani Mukerji

There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you…

— Richard Bach

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

— Dave Draper

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

— Rory Vaden

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the…

— Debbie Ford

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

— Oscar Wilde

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be…

— Howard Schultz

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

— Franz Grillparzer

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

— Andrew Carnegie

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

— Fred Allen

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The only sin is mediocrity. (While widely attributed to Martha Graham she attributed this to her father)”

— Martha Graham

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle…

— Margaret Benson

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard…

— Caryll Houselander

Rock 'n' roll, for me, is another award for underachievers. It is nothing but a testament to mediocrity.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy,…

— Lauren Bacall

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

— Sarah Vowell

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a…

— Fran Tarkenton

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

— H. L. Mencken

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal…

— James F. Cooper

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

— William Hurt

We live in a world where mediocrity is the norm. Strive for excellence, and you will stand out.

— Anonymous