Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity,… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities... — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
“Living a lifestyle of mediocrity will lead to more of the same if you don't change something now that can bring about… — Germany Kent 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
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
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
“[T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my… — David Foster Copy Share Image
The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing… — Hal Elrod 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
“Even though copying what’s come before is a guaranteed path to mediocrity, it appears to be a safe choice, and the desire… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Suddenly feeling like your life's out-of-control, can be the worst feeling. Like things are coming at you from all directions.. total chaos..… — Kenneth W Griffin 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
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Greatness is for those who work for it, Mediocrity is for those who accept it.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
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