Top 89 Not Mediocre Quotes
#2. She wiped the mirror so she could look at herself. Mediocre and grim, she thought. Not mediocre, her face, with wide gray eyes, fine nose and smile, but it was grim. A good body, but so long disregarded it seemed grim too.
Lucia Berlin
#3. Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
Terry Gilliam
#5. Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
Erica Jong
#6. Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#7. With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil
#8. Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.
Pope Francis
#9. But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
Soren Kierkegaard
#10. Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.
Henry Cloud
#11. Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.
Pope Francis
#12. Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
Warren Buffett
#14. The sun rises not to be mediocre, but to shine; so should you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.
Amity Shlaes
#17. Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
Michael Schumacher
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine Albright
#21. God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.
Joyce Meyer
#22. Become successful, not just because you want to but because you have to!
What's the point in living a mediocre life, if the human race can learn to become successful?
SuccessCoach Nilesh
#23. For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
John Ortberg
#24. Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!
Pope Francis
#25. I wasn't born mediocre, i won't achieve mediocrity, and i will not let anyone put it on me. i will kill you.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#26. My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
Condoleezza Rice
#27. If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.
Wallace D. Wattles
#28. The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.
Sylvia Plath
#29. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.
Junior Seau
#30. I may not be the best at anything, but I can be better than mediocre.
Krista Ritchie
#31. Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
Richard Branson
#32. I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.
Neil Diamond
#33. It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?
Sarah Schulman
#34. Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.
Stuart Wilde
#35. 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
#36. Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people
Sunday Adelaja
#37. What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#38. Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success
Marlon James
#39. [I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#40. If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.
Joyce Rachelle
#42. There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
Jef I. Richards
#43. I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.
Angela Bassett
#44. I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
Laila Robins
#45. Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.
Don Paterson
#46. 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
#47. I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute ... Just not well.
Kat Dennings
#48. The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.
Christopher Caldwell
#49. He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
Robert Cormier
#50. Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now they will seem mediocre. You will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great
Henry Curtis
#51. I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.
Jenni Schaefer
#52. Hope waits but does not sit. It strains with eager anticipation to see what may be coming on the horizon. Hope does not pacify; it does not make us docile and mediocre. Instead, it draws us to greater risk and perseverance
Dan B. Allender
#53. Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.
Alexander Zinoviev
#54. For their kind do not know what it is to risk everything in the endeavor to rise above the mediocre.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#55. I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.
Ron Perlman
#56. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.
Seth Godin
#57. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.
Ingvar Kamprad
#58. I am not a success if all I do is fit into somebody's prescription; its better to stand out and be celebrated for being a definition. The world would prefer to take the bitter pills of an achiever than the sweet chocolates of a mediocre.
Bayode Ojo
#59. You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.
Kenneth Langone
#60. Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!
Pope Francis
#62. There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!
Israelmore Ayivor
#63. We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Alan Turing
#65. Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.
Rick Pitino
#66. 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
#67. You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.
George Lois
#68. I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.
Mila Kunis
#69. Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#70. We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.
Chris Hedges
#71. Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#73. In love one cannot be mediocre, nor can one sustain love without work. The choices in the past were not enough, and it was necessary to choose again.
Simone Troisi
#74. I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.
Jack Kirby
#75. I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.
Kelly Brook
#76. Society gained more by not placing excessive power in the hands of mediocre politicians than it lost by limiting the power of great heroes and statesmen who might or might not appear once every few centuries.
Yoshiki Tanaka
#77. If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
Patrick Ness
#78. I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
Michael Arndt
#79. Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#80. Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.
George Carlin
#81. at your job, if you haven't mastered the skills of your job or aren't seeking to do so, you aren't serving your employer and coworkers as well as you should. You might even be making the work of others harder. Mediocre work is not Christian! We are to love our neighbor as ourselves
Matt Perman
#82. 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
#83. For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
John Ortberg
#85. Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
Seth Godin
#86. Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Ezra Pound
#87. The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.
Brian Tracy
#88. Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort
Manoj Arora
#89. I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.
Kent Beck
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