Mediocrity And Fear Quotes

#1. Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#2. 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

#3. I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Courtney Love

#4. Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

Andy Stanley

#5. The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Seth Godin

#6. Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Fear mediocrity,
not failure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Of course I don't want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.

Eric Zorn

#13. By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity.

Steve Maraboli

#15. 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

#16. Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Luc De Clapiers

#17. The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

George Lois

#18. Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity ... are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

James C. Collins

#19. Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

Robert Downey Jr.

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physical cowardice or some religious hope keeps her from the suicide that offers her a way out.

Colette

#22. We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

Craig D. Lounsbrough