Excellence Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

— Jean Giraudoux

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people

— Joseph Joubert

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

— Joseph Joubert

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

— Joseph Heller

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…

— Rafe Esquith

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

— Elizabeth Hardwick

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

— Joseph Joubert

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

— Marcia Gay Harden