Mediocre Quotes

352 quotes by 273 authors

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me. — LL Cool J
I'm not a big fan of mediocre. — Marcia Gay Harden
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. — Diane Keaton
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and… — Dan Pallotta
Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals! — Pope Francis
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. — B. C. Forbes
Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary… — Hal Elrod
No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort. — Hal Elrod
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood
I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get… — Alex Prager
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann
For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace,… — Bruce Barton
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. — Tom Robbins
Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public… — Claude Monet
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. — Susan Sontag
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful… — Bobby Knight
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. — Douglass North
Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how… — Richard Wexler

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