Quotes About Mediocre People

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

Joseph Joubert

#2. 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

#3. Greatness is lonely and mediocre people feel consoled by that thought.
One has to choose between greatness and mediocrity oneself and the responsibility is all theirs if they accept greatness.

John Steinbeck

#4. Don't settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.

John C. Maxwell

#5. Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people

Sunday Adelaja

#6. In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Camille Paglia

#7. When superior people hear guidance, they carry it out diligently and ably. When mediocre people hear guidance, it seems vague and uncertain. When lesser people hear guidance, they laugh.

Lao-Tzu

#8. High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers.

Nick Saban

#9. You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

Amy Chan

#10. Superior people talk about ideas. Mediocre people talk about things. Little people talk about other people.

John Whitfield

#11. I didn't say I didn't like you. 'Like' is such a puerile word. Mediocre people like things. The only question of any significant emotive content is: Can you live without it?

Karen Marie Moning

#12. Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

G. Willow Wilson

#13. Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

#14. Mediocre people find their way into positions of authority ... because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Bill Maher

#16. 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

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

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#18. The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.
- Serious Men

Manu Joseph

#19. Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.

Lee Clow

#20. Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

W. Somerset Maugham

#21. The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

Kenneth Langone

#22. Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

Martin Gore

#23. I find my chances for success improve when I associate with a few talented people as opposed to a plethora of mediocre ones.

Jeffrey Fry

#24. People can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers. You clearly belong to the latter. Your fate is and will always be the fate of a dreamer.

Haruki Murakami

#25. I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

James D. Sass

#26. It's a big world. A lot of people are worth loving. Why love someone mediocre?

Akhil Sharma

#27. Apple CEO Steve Jobs used to talk about a phenomenon called a "bozo explosion," by which a company's mediocre early hires rise up through the ranks and end up running departments. The bozos now must hire other people, and of course they prefer to hire bozos.

Dan Lyons

#28. There are challenges and opposition, everywhere! But we will fight the fight of faith!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Moby

#30. All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. Now people can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers.

Haruki Murakami

#32. Mediocrist (n.) A person of mediocre talents. Nobody wants to be mediocre, but someone has to be. In fact, by definition, most people are. Microphily

Ammon Shea

#33. Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

Philip Berrigan

#34. 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

#35. When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

Terry Pratchett

#36. 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

#37. Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

Timothy Ferriss

#38. 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

#39. Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

Israelmore Ayivor

#40. Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

Stephen King

#41. Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

Richard Wexler

#42. For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

Northrop Frye

#43. If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

Bill Gates

#44. It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Steven Van Zandt

#45. I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Nancy Sinatra

#46. Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

#47. Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

Israelmore Ayivor

#48. There might be exceptions - and if so, you might rethink their employment - but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution - to find purpose in their work.

Stephen R. Covey

#49. There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

Dan Levitan

#50. 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

#51. My girl, there are three kinds of people in the world: the outstanding, the mediocre, and the truly hopeless.

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

#52. I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president - which means, in our time, a dangerous president - unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.

Howard Zinn

#53. Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to say-I'm sorry, your kid has no promise whatsoever? She's utterly mediocre in every way?

Anne Ursu

#54. There are days you live through; mediocre days that people may see as a waste or even boring. But they are each days that get you to the days you live for; the moments that you never forget.

Meghan Apriceno Carr

#55. Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

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

Doug Stanhope

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

Pope Francis

#58. 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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

Minnie Driver

#62. High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

Guy Kawasaki

#63. In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Jonah Lehrer

#64. The world of politics is basically of the instinctive level. It belongs to the law of the jungle: might is right. And the people who get interested in politics are the most mediocre. Politics needs no other qualifications except one - that is, a deep feeling of inferiority.

Osho

#65. 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

#66. Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Edward Burtynsky

#67. Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

Peter Lynch

#68. Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Criss Jami

#69. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Frank Sonnenberg

#70. 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

#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. People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

George Allen

#73. I want to make the world a more magickal place. To give magick a form that people appreciate, and that changes their lives. To create art that will make people want to forever reject the mundane and mediocre world they've been surrounded by

Damien Echols

#74. It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.

Vann Chow

#75. 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

#76. A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Lauren Mayberry

#77. Remember: People who tell you it cannot be done almost always are unsuccessful people, are strictly average or mediocre at best in terms of accomplishment.

David J. Schwartz

#78. Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.

Barbra Streisand

#79. Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#80. The people with money were meddling in mechanical and design affairs. They were interjecting their mediocre ideas into the process and polluting it.

Robert Greene

#81. Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

Brian Tracy

#82. 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

#83. Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Robert Hughes

#84. There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

Joe Jamail

#85. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something ... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Salvador Dali

#86. Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos