Mediocrity Quotes

473 Mediocrity quotes by 345 unique authors

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. — Fulton J. Sheen
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their… — Robert Louis Stevenson
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums,… — Hunter S. Thompson
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will
Mechanization best serves mediocrity. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of… — Paulo Coelho
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are… — Vladimir Nabokov
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. — Albert Camus
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can… — Spencer W. Kimball
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. — Gordon B. Hinckley
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the… — Hermann Hesse
nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice… — Richard Bach
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. — George S. Patton
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like… — Soren Kierkegaard
The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent. — Norman Mailer
To be popular one must be a mediocrity. — Oscar Wilde
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that… — Sylvester Stallone
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a… — Haruki Murakami
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living… — Trevanian
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can… — C.S. Lewis
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those… — Boris Pasternak
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. — W. Somerset Maugham

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