Quotes About Mediocre

#1. [A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

Georges Bernanos

#2. What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

V.C. Andrews

#3. The great move mountains;
the cowardly hide behind them.
The extraordinary walk on water;
the mediocre drown on land.
The excellent perform miracles;
the inferior carry out mischief.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

Lance Henriksen

#5. 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

#6. Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Tom Robbins

#8. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.

Marcus Garvey

#9. 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

#10. A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Quintilian

#11. Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

Michael Keaton

#13. Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#14. A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean De La Bruyere

#15. It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

Samuel Goldwyn

#16. I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard ... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

Vinny Guadagnino

#17. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Jill Robinson

#18. It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

Charlie Munger

#19. You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

Wilbert Rideau

#20. Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

Boland T. Jones

#21. I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

Randall Robinson

#22. Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

Donald Tusk

#23. We must overcome the notion that we must be regular ... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Uta Hagen

#24. I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

James Vincent McMorrow

#25. My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Douglass North

#26. I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Doug Stanhope

#27. Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Randy Pausch

#28. 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

#29. Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect

Michael Bassey Johnson

#30. A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Tom Stoppard

#31. The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

Joseph Joubert

#33. Life without madness is mediocrity.

Nelou Keramati

#34. It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.

Auliq Ice

#35. A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

Jacob Epstein

#36. Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

B.C. Forbes

#37. A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

Prince Charles

#38. Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Claude Bernard

#39. Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Rick Pitino

#40. A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

Harvey MacKay

#41. 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

#42. I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Kevin Kline

#43. We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#44. My world was ordered, calm, and controlled, then you came into my life with your smart mouth, your innocence, your beauty, and your quiet temerity ... and everything before you was just dull, empty, mediocre ... it was nothing.

E.L. James

#45. I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

Danny Strong

#46. 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

#47. If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

Hugh B. Brown

#48. One has to set high standards ... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Patrice Motsepe

#49. There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

Madeleine Albright

#50. Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Anonymous

#51. A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Carson McCullers

#52. Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Fred Brooks

#53. There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#54. - As the poet Hebbel noted, "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." Executives know their development teams need to be passionate about their projects; otherwise, the projects and the company will remain mediocre.

Anonymous

#55. It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

Ivan Turgenev

#56. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

Warren Buffett

#57. We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#58. Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work

Sunday Adelaja

#59. I like my friends at a functional enough level of mediocre to where I don't feel incompetent.

Veronica Larsen

#60. Ninety percent of my work is crap," he continued. "Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.

Olivia Cunning

#61. Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

Pope Francis

#62. He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Thomas Mann

#63. There is no trivia in a strategic mind.

Toba Beta

#64. I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Doug Harvey

#65. Somebody is born.
Somebody goes to school.
Somebody learns to conform.
Somebody types a CV.
Somebody gets a job.
Somebody follows orders.
Somebody gets a golden watch.
And then, eventually,
Somebody dies.
And, a Nobody is buried.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#66. I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

John Corigliano

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#68. Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#69. Scores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

Suzanne Collins

#70. A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

Tyler Cowen

#71. Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

Tutea Petre

#72. In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#73. Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

#74. Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#75. What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#76. The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

Ayn Rand

#77. To be popular I must be mediocre.

Oscar Wilde

#78. 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

#79. A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

P.M.S. Blackett

#80. 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

#81. Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Stephen Collins

#82. Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Robert Gottlieb

#84. I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Renee Vivien

#85. All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

Tony Robbins

#86. Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

George Clooney

#87. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#88. An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Susan Sontag

#89. I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things.
They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects.
If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker ... then you
have to think differently.

Mark Weiser

#90. I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Steven Chu

#91. Say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.

Bill Maher

#92. I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

Casper Crump

#93. I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Brigitte Bardot

#94. Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#95. 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

#96. Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#97. For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty formulas of intellectual superiority.

Alex Ross

#98. My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

Jonathan Brandis

#99. It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

Howard Schultz

#100. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Seth Godin