Mediocre Quotes

352 quotes by 273 authors

Be special. Be anything but mediocre. — Anita Roddick
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? — Janis Joplin
Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness. — Pope Francis
I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they… — Patrick Lencioni
High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers. — Nick Saban
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes. — Tom Peters
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre — Leo Tolstoy
Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. — Pope Francis
Donâ€™t tolerate any form of average. Donâ€™t accept Dis-excellence. Donâ€™t stand for mediocre. If youâ€™re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best. — Robin Sharma
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to… — Kurt Vonnegut
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was… — Kevin Kline
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. — Scott Caan
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion… — Alan Turing
Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of… — Oliver DeMille
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It… — Marilyn Hacker
This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great… — Sean William Scott
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are… — Claude Bernard
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to… — Philip Berrigan
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. — Ezra Pound

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