“Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“When a person puts on a show, trying to appear great, their mediocrity is soon exposed.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
“When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don’t call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of… — Otis Webb Brawley Copy Share Image
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics,… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for… — Abel Bonnard Copy Share Image
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
“Mediocrity doesn’t always mean underperforming—it’s a sliding scale and a state of mind. It means settling in and succumbing to stasis. Mediocrity… — Anonymous 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
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
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
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
