Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I am aiming for greatness because being good sometimes it's just not good enough. — London Mond Copy Share Image
“Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.” — Esmé Raji Codell Copy Share Image
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. — Nelson Boswell Copy Share Image
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
“If you believed in the “mediocrity of the masses,” as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
“Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front… — Will Self Copy Share Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are.… — Shannon l. Alder Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears.… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'?… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
