Not Accepting Mediocrity Quotes

#1. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

#2. I am very proud to be Irish.

Philip Treacy

#3. CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

William Shakespeare

#4. The most important thing was the creation of a ... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

Bill Gates

#5. Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.

Steven Pressfield

#6. Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#7. You have to be the best you can be with what you have.

Rick Hansen

#8. When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

Ann Leckie

#9. Couple this discovery with the realization that my things shouldn't own me and that life's meant to be lived, not displayed on Pinterest, and my sense is I've finally achieved something close to balance. I feel excellent about actually having

Jen Lancaster

#10. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

John Burroughs

#11. [A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

Thomas Paine

#12. It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.

Tonya Hurley

#13. To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

John W. Thompson

#15. India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

Manoj Arora

#17. Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush