But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
“To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“Had you been able to guess bits of my destiny, Perhaps you would bear your mediocrity with more ease.” — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it. — Rory Vaden Copy Share Image
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why settle for mediocre if there is even the slightest chance for something amazing? Because you can never settle if you keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow. — Dave Draper Copy Share Image
“If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.” — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“They took a ridiculous lack of features, an almost insulting lack of features, and sold that as a benefit – with extraordinary success” — Jonathan Siegel Copy Share Image
There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve… — Heidi Reagan Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity. — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
“The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
