All time Quote by Charles Baudelaire

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest.

— Senora Roy

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above…

— William E. Gladstone

When mediocrity becomes the accepted norm, excellence dies a painful death.

— Rashida Rowe

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

— Paula Scher

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling. - Serious Men”

— Manu Joseph

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

— Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people

— Joseph Joubert

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

— Joseph Joubert