It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity. — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is… — Trevor Manuel Copy Share Image
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois Copy Share Image
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity. — Martin de Maat Copy Share Image
Be it at JNU or any institute, students want India to shine. They want the country to get rid of mediocrity and… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company… — Gary Player Copy Share Image
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
It was the '70s when mediocrity came in Hindi films. That's when the actor called Rajesh Khanna joined the industry. For all… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front… — Will Self Copy Share Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“I have always tried for quality in everything I do. I don't have a problem with that; I have a problem with… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“That 'power grab' of Netflix has only led to an incridible amount of horrendous mediocrity. They should simply have focussed on collecting… — Martijn Benders Copy Share Image
As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate… — Edward S. Jordan Copy Share Image
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When mediocrity becomes the accepted norm, excellence dies a painful death. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
