Mediocrity Quotes

473 Mediocrity quotes by 345 unique authors

The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside… — Price Pritchett
Mediocrity always attacks excellence. — Michael Beckwith
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease.… — Price Pritchett
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten… — Michael J. Gelb
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. — James C. Collins
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. — Frederick E. Crane
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.… — George Lois
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to… — Pope John Paul II
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I… — Rod Blagojevich
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray.… — Jon Bon Jovi
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.... — Natalie Clifford Barney
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own… — Erwin Chargaff
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker
Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of… — Og Mandino
Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life… — Robin Sharma
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn… — Richard Yates
It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity… — Cesare Lombroso
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities — Cesare Lombroso
Only mediocrity escapes criticism. — John Steinbeck
Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life. — Fran Tarkenton
As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and… — Georges St-Pierre

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