Top 32 Mediocrity Best Quotes

#1. 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

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#2. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

Aleksandar Hemon

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#3. Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

Gustave Flaubert

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

Nancy Pearcey

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#5. In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

Xela Ffonrims

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#6. when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#7. We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

Joe Manchin

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#8. It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity.

Chloe Thurlow

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#9. It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Joseph Cook

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#10. Nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

Richard Bach

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#11. Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

Lou Holtz

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#12. Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#13. Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.

Bryce Courtenay

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#14. Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre...

Assegid Habtewold

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#15. Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

Paulo Coelho

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#16. They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.

Maddy Malhotra

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#17. Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Victor J. Banis

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#18. For anybody who loves what they do, mediocrity is not enough. You don't have to be the best in the world, but you should be the best that you can be.

Travis Barker

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#19. Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville

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#20. How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

Dan Miller

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#21. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Max Beerbohm

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#22. In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Eric Ambler

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#23. If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity.

Benjamin Wood

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#24. You see it in schools all over ... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well ... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.

Fiona Wood

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#25. The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity.

Patrick Lencioni

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#26. People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.

John C. Maxwell

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#27. The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Eddie McGuire

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#28. Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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#29. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it "well-roundedness," a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it.

Peter Thiel

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#30. I believe that, the prevailing system of management is, at its core, dedicated to mediocrity. It forces people to work harder and harder to compensate for failing to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that characterizes working together at their best. Deming saw this clearly,

Peter M. Senge

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#31. Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

Garrison Keillor

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#32. 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

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