Avoid Mediocrity Quotes

#1. Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#3. Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Immanuel Kant

#5. Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

Evelyn Underhill

#7. Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.

Mary E. Pearson

#8. Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Frank Herbert

#10. Bunce films them. So Joey who came out of one porn film would go into another. It could fuck up the whole space-time continuum. They could prosecute us."
"For?"
"Meta-fiction in the first degree?

David Pratt

#11. I might define a 'journey' as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a 'trip' as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

Eric Schmidt

#13. To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

Lynne Stewart

#15. It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.

Miriam A. Walker

#16. The myth of true love is one of the greatest self-deceptions ever embraced by the female sex. It's right up there with the ridiculous notion that money can't buy happiness and size doesn't matter.

J.T. Geissinger

#17. Writing that sort of [songs like "Let is Roll"]made me try to almost sort of ingrain it in my own head every time I sing it live as well. It's like therapy. It's like "Move on, Pip! Come on. You can do this! You can do this."

Ladyhawke

#18. The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

Georges St-Pierre

#19. While I do not have a boyfriend, I do have a friend who is homosexual and I once asked him "Do you ever think about having sex with me because you are gay?" to which he replied "Do you ever think about having sex with Rosie O'Donnell because you are straight? Same thing.

David Thorne

#20. The '70's came and went already

Joe Perry

#21. You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! Your

J.K. Rowling

#22. Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

John H. Vandenberg

#24. Always remember, darling girl, men love the pussy and their dicks are always fiending for attention. If you're not around to give it to them, they'll get it somewhere else and the novelty of new lips and a new cunt might shock them so much they'll think they're in love.

Katie Ayres

#25. There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26. It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

Edward Steichen