Mediocre Man Quotes

#1. He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect. He asked himself: How can I die? I was always like this. Now I am more me. He had the ammo. He took them all down.

Colson Whitehead

#2. In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

Joel Achenbach

#4. There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

John Steinbeck

#5. We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

Gloria Steinem

#6. Only a mediocre man is always at his best,

Neil Peart

#7. I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

Juanita M. Kreps

#8. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

#9. If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Rumi

#10. Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-
a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

Rabih Alameddine

#12. As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Elbert Hubbard

#13. He walks over to me, and I can see his feet and shins in my field of vision. Naked feet. I

E.L. James

#14. Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

Woody Hayes

#15. Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

Michael Moore

#16. We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.

Doug Sundheim

#17. It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

Zalmay Khalilzad

#18. The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

Keith Johnstone

#20. John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Paul Johnson

#21. A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Harvey Dunn

#22. No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

James Cash Penney

#23. Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Diane Keaton

#24. An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him ... This is our present posture ... This suggestions I make ... would ... conserve American lives for American ends.

Murray Rothbard

#25. Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study.

Thomas Mann

#26. In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.

Horatio Greenough