Mediocrity Quotes

473 Mediocrity quotes by 345 unique authors

Mediocrity is not worth the trip. — Sergio Marchionne
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… — Arthur Koestler
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. — Rahul Gandhi
There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic. — Sean Plott
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity. — Andrew Keen
To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel… — Martin Dugard
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further. — Bruce Barnbaum
If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity. — Alex Bogusky
Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it. — Rory Vaden
In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. — John Loeffler
Self-disciplin e is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With… — Brian Tracy
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The… — Napoleon Hill
The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine. — Vilayat Inayat Khan
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost,… — Julie Powell
Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity. — J. Irwin Miller
This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in… — Trevor Manuel
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An… — Colin Powell
In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity — Keith Ferrazzi
Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of mediocrity you will… — David Deida
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre;… — Rafe Esquith
Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware… — Glenn Clark
You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to… — Cheryl Strayed
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be.… — Og Mandino

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