Mediocrity Quotes

473 Mediocrity quotes by 345 unique authors

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
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein
Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself… — Jack Welch
You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living… — John H. Vandenberg
You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay... — Van Morrison
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. — Eugene Ionesco
Mediocrity is a hand-rail. — Baron de Montesquieu
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities. — Ramachandra Guha
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses… — Marc Maron

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