Mediocre Quotes

352 quotes by 279 authors

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. — Virginia C. Andrews
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. — Albert Camus
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic… — Gustave Flaubert
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the… — Ray Bradbury
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve. — Edmund Hillary
Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe… — Irvine Welsh
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre — Robert Hughes
You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame… — Marjane Satrapi
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is… — Alfred de Vigny
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those… — Peter Drucker
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. — Ayn Rand
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library… — Frank Zappa
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. — Ivan Turgenev
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.… — Joseph Heller
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have… — Robert A. Heinlein
I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president… — Howard Zinn

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