“The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“EACH OF US IS BORN INTO GENIUS. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. — Thomas Mann 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
“You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the… — Denise Levertov 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
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
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can… — Lisa Gerrard 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
“Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can work only so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if… — Mark R. Woodward Copy Share Image
The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 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
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
