Top 44 Quotes About Being Mediocre
#1. My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
Jonathan Brandis
#2. Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.
Rick Pitino
#3. If she can't achieve that, something truly brilliant, then what's the point in living at all? Because in her family, being mediocre, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, simply isn't allowed.
Menna Van Praag
#5. That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.
Rebecca Goldstein
#6. 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
#7. Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins
#8. I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.
Sofia Boutella
#10. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.
Frank Sonnenberg
#11. This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.
Richelle Mead
#12. Mike and I both stared at Edward with our mouths hanging open.
Stephenie Meyer
#13. I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.
Gerald R. Ford
#14. 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
#15. While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
Robert Teeter
#16. Whoever was doing the crossword was halfway through
Liane Moriarty
#17. I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
Elena Ferrante
#18. We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.
Josh Schwartz
#19. Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
Al Kooper
#20. You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.
Amy Chan
#21. Everyone calls everybody special, so what's so special about being special? We all must have heard "you have the spark/you're the best/ you will rule the world" and just in the cut throat competition of being "special" we have forgotten to be Simple/ordinary/mediocre..
Himmilicious
#22. When you see the dark clouds, don't feel sad, don't feel bad and don't be afraid because sun is there just behind them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be.
Emma Shane
#24. In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.
Bill Maher
#25. In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Seth Godin
#26. There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
Ted Cruz
#27. For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
Joe Klein
#28. Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#31. Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury
#32. Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
#33. If God wanted you to live a mediocre life, He wouldn't have made you so awesome. Never apologize for being designed to succeed.
Steve Maraboli
#34. 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
#35. Brooms are better for sweeping than for flying," he said. "Besides, witches these days prefer airplanes. There's an in-flight snack and you arrive at your destination looking fabulous.
Z. Riddle
#36. Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
Sue Monk Kidd
#37. Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.
Rajneesh
#38. May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.
Pooja Ruprell
#40. Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had here if you didn't have the right mental attitude and work ethic. You need all those elements to come together to do something like we are doing.
Pete Carroll
#41. There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#42. The younger brother hath the more wit.
John Ray
#43. If being a perfect soldier meant continuing to follow any fucking order I was given, then I would have to settle for being a mediocre soldier.
Stan Goff
#44. Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
Michael Schumacher
