Mediocrity Quotes

473 Mediocrity quotes by 345 unique authors

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. — Seth Godin
It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. — Seth Godin
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. — Seth Godin
The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you. — Seth Godin
The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly. — Seth Godin
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless. — Seth Godin
You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day. — Seth Godin
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old… — James Hillman
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the… — Walter Russell Bowie
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium — Seneca the Younger
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start… — Price Pritchett
Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure. — Johnnetta B. Cole
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. — James F. Cooper
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. — Charles G. Dawes
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn… — Hank Ketcham
We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. — Joe Manchin
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes
I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity. — Clea DuVall
Malice is only another name for mediocrity. — Patrick Kavanagh
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. — Allan Sloan
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are… — Jackie Cooper
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break… — Og Mandino
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint.… — Stanley Morison

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