I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
“If you believed in the “mediocrity of the masses,” as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
“Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if… — Joel Osteen 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
“God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Parents and schools are teaching children how not to think, but how to be good little groupthinkers and people of faith, how… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
