Top 63 Quotes About Mediocre Life
#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. 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
#5. We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Anonymous
#10. Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!
Pope Francis
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#16. Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we'll do what we want.
Daniel Willey
#17. Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study.
Thomas Mann
#18. Life could be hideous or beautiful, often both, but never mediocre
Kate Tempest
#19. Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.
Alvaro De Campos
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire,
and so we live a mediocre life,
never bringing to consummation
the primary impulse of our heart.
David Deida
#23. Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort
Manoj Arora
#24. I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?
Daphne Oz
#25. The world needs more dreamers, more peak performers, more people who aren't content settling for mediocre. It's time to stand up and create the future and life you love.
Michelle McCullough
#26. Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you.
Keely Brooke Keith
#27. Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#28. I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.
Lena Dunham
#29. The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.
Ray Bradbury
#30. If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?
Donald Trump
#31. I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty; that it is in seeking the unknown in our sensations that we discover how mediocre are our attempts and how soon defeated!
Joseph Conrad
#32. Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.
Stewart Butterfield
#33. The mediocre spouse tells. The good spouse explains. The superior spouse demonstrates. The great spouse encourages.
GE Paulus
#34. By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#36. Don't let a mediocre person tell you what you are capable of or how your future is going to be.
Maddy Malhotra
#37. Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.
Emil Cioran
#38. He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect. He asked himself: How can I die? I was always like this. Now I am more me. He had the ammo. He took them all down.
Colson Whitehead
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
Edith Piaf
#43. death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#44. Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff.
Seth Godin
#45. There are challenges and opposition, everywhere! But we will fight the fight of faith!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.
Pope Francis
#47. Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.
Pope Francis
#48. The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.
Andre Maurois
#49. What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
Joan Miro
#51. We must reject the idea ... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong ... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses ... Like most of anything else in life ... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
James C. Collins
#52. To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.
Len Smith
#53. [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
#54. [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.
Christopher Hitchens
#55. The pain done to Housman allowed him to rise above the mediocre and to find the words that most of us need help in order to say. The price paid by Housman was a life alone; the righteous rhymer enduring each year unloved and unable to love:
Morrissey
#56. You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.
Amy Chan
#57. Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.
Willie Robertson
#59. On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.
Robert Walser
#60. 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
#61. Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
Anne Rice
#62. 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
#63. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
Ray Bradbury
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