Good Mediocrity Quotes

#1. Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

Joel Osteen

#3. Show me the person that calls another a fool, and i will prove the extent of his mediocrity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#4. There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden

#5. I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

Robert Hughes

#6. Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Bob Seger

#7. Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will

#8. Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

Rani Mukerji

#9. If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Mark Glamack

#10. If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm
but that's a lie ... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

Vincent Van Gogh

#11. As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that pour over an editor's desk, he cannot afford to be 'as good as'; he (or she) must be 'better than.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#12. I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

Evangeline Lilly

#13. fear is dangerous but fear is good

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. 'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

Seth Godin

#15. I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

Phoebe Philo

#16. I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

Jackie Cooper

#17. The major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.

M.J. Ryan

#18. Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Chris Pine

#19. All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

#20. The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#21. A society that lacks good people willing to speak against evil or low standards can only devolve into darkness and mediocrity.

Brendon Burchard

#22. Why is Mediocrity now good enough?
When did crap become the new black?

Igor Goldkind

#23. A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity ...

Robert Schumann

#24. Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

George R R Martin

#25. A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Nicolas Chamfort

#26. Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Henry S. Haskins

#27. Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Nancy Pearcey

#28. Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Edi Rama

#29. A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Emile M. Cioran

#30. There are those of us who readily embrace the pabulum of mediocrity which declares that things are about as good as they can get, and so things never get good.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

Walter Darby Bannard

#32. Even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.

Benedict Groeschel