A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity... — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity. — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further. — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity. — Andrew Keen Copy Share Image
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity,… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
“If I could understand that every ‘reality’ was once a ‘wish’, and that it moved from the latter to the former because… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
“No, this is easy-does-it shabby. I-know-who-I-am shabby. Persian-rug shabby.” — Susie Steiner Copy Share Image
The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Mediocrity To Cavalry: A Life Not Lived Chasing After The Wind” — Rizwan Niaz Raiyan Copy Share Image
