Consolation Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical…

— Dan Simmons

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

— Max Beerbohm

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

— Walter Russell

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

— Sean Plott

“Mediocrity is Death.”

— Suleman Abdullah

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

— Walter Russell

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

— C. S. Lewis

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“EACH OF US IS BORN INTO GENIUS. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity.”

— Robin S. Sharma