He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding;… — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends… — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity! — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity,… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have talked with many pastors whose real struggle isn’t first with the hardship of ministry, the lack of appreciation and involvement… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
