Acceptance Quote by Max Beerbohm

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

— Max Beerbohm

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of…

— Adolf Hitler

Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that…

— Joshua L. Liebman

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

“Productive mediocrity requires discipline of an ordinary kind. It is safe and threatens no one. Nothing will be changed by mediocrity. . . . But genius is…

— Adam M. Grant

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

— Walter Russell

It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that…

— Kate Smith

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or…

— June Jordan

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

— Andre Malraux