Mediocrity Quotes

473 Mediocrity quotes by 345 unique authors

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity — Jon Taffer
There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius. — Rutvik Oza
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. — James C. Collins
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important… — Edward Steichen
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. — Luc de Clapiers
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no… — James Russell Lowell
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to… — Frank Moore Colby
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard
Mediocrity is underrated. — Mary-Louise Parker
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency. — James C. Collins
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly. — Ned Rorem
I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of… — Gillian Anderson
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities. — Joe Klein
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free. — Tom Petty
Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment. — Bob Seger
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in… — M.F.K. Fisher
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity. — Ray Davies
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, — Eddie McGuire
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity. — Dick Cavett

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