Mediocrity Quotes

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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Media, the plural of mediocrity. — Jimmy Breslin
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and… — Thomas Merton
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could… — Thomas Sowell
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in… — Dorothy Day
I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. — Walter Russell
You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you… — T. Harv Eker
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its… — Seth Shostak
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson
The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. — William Hurt
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. — William Arthur Ward
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own… — Uell Stanley Andersen
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you… — Joel Osteen
You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel… — Fiona Wood
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. — Henry David Thoreau
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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