Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.… — Vera Nazarian 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
“You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. — John Loeffler Copy Share Image
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. — Nelson Boswell Copy Share Image
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Democrats would pull the ladder from aspiring Americans and create a permanent status of government-run mediocrity. — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
“It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive… — 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
