Character Quote by Alfred Russel Wallace

“Societies are mediocre, individuals are excellent.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into…

— Sunday Adelaja

“As human nature is essentially rational, it follows that the highest form of excellence, and the key to living harmoniously, is the perfection of…

— Don Robertson

“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold,…

— John Stuart Mill

“mediocre amount of intelligence is sometimes most dangerous. It does not take one far enough.”

— Agatha Christie

“I was being taught to believe that, first, I was special, unique, important, and great beyond words; second, that I was completely equal to…

— Lauren Southern

“You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished for being good. One can’t be penalized for ability.”

— Ayn Rand

“It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.”

— Stephan Attia

“Greatness is for those who work for it, Mediocrity is for those who accept it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“The mediocre can be educated; geniuses educate themselves.”

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal