...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
When mediocrity becomes the accepted norm, excellence dies a painful death. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
People are born to be different. Yet most people spend their whole life trying to fit in and be the same as… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. — Nelson Boswell Copy Share Image
“Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Youre full of great expectations. Your own, and those imposed. Small failures and half successes. The epitome of mediocrity composed — Aly Johnson 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
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be… — Napoleon Hill 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
If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are… — Lord Chesterfield 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 don't think there's any problem with technology. Actually rewind that thought - there is a downside to affordable technology, and that's… — Don Letts Copy Share Image
I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure -… — Claire Messud 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 American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'?… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
