“The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“EACH OF US IS BORN INTO GENIUS. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Do something remarkable or accept being the mere statistic that you have always been awarded. — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
“To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for… — Abel Bonnard 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
The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics,… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can work only so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible moment when you realise you’ll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you’ll never… — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“However, Nick acted as much as possible under the circumstances, and that was rectifying — it brought with it enjoyment and a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
