Top 100 Quotes About Mediocrity
#1. To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
Michael Eisner
#2. What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#3. Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit!
Dan Millman
#4. I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
Terry Gilliam
#5. We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.
Vishwas Chavan
#6. To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#7. Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
Henry Fuseli
#8. Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.
Robin Sharma
#9. The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
James C. Collins
#10. The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.
Joe Nichols
#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. Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#13. We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION
Marsha Wright
#16. Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity.
Suzanne Evans
#17. You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.
T. Harv Eker
#18. Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.
Marie Arana
#19. It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physical cowardice or some religious hope keeps her from the suicide that offers her a way out.
Colette
#20. Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
Julie Powell
#21. My mediocrity is no secret;
My battles with it are
Karan Patade
#22. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Margot Fonteyn
#23. The major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.
M.J. Ryan
#24. In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.
Paul Horn
#25. If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.
John Assaraf
#26. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.
Michel Houellebecq
#27. Even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.
Benedict Groeschel
#28. I made a big mistake, and I didn't use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn't make myself any better because of it.
And that's not okay with me.
Dan Pearce
#29. If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
Paulo Coelho
#30. 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
#31. For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.
Randy Gage
#32. All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
James Fenimore Cooper
#33. Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.
James Madison
#34. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
Colin Powell
#35. Beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
Ellen Glasgow
#36. She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.
Christos Tsiolkas
#37. Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Joseph Joubert
#39. Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
Robert Genn
#40. Don't fall in trap of mediocrity and loose thinking. Surround yourself with intellectual people and thinkers. Be an awesome version of yourself day after day!!
Reshma Wable
#41. 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
#42. Tears begin to well in my eyes. I have no idea how or if I even deserve him, but there's one thing I know for sure. As long as he's part of it, I'll never live a life of mediocrity.
Colleen Hoover
#43. Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.
Elena Ferrante
#44. The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.
Price Pritchett
#45. For what level of mediocrity will you settle?
Brandon Lee
#46. Billions of people have traveled and continue to travel the other path, and it grows wider every year ... The trouble is that on this wide path, you don't end up at awesome. You just end up at old. This path is called 'average'.
Jon Acuff
#47. There are those of us who readily embrace the pabulum of mediocrity which declares that things are about as good as they can get, and so things never get good.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.
Tim Fargo
#49. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
Ani DiFranco
#50. Commitment to excellence is a great habit; unfortunately commitment to mediocrity is also a habit.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.
Indro Montanelli
#53. We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#54. A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
Emile M. Cioran
#55. 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
#56. If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
Hugh B. Brown
#57. Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
Edi Rama
#58. The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
William Hurt
#59. They were people who believed that mediocrity was safe.
Ayn Rand
#61. I was like the runner-up to Miss Mediocrity and my prize was awkward silence.
Rae Mariz
#62. At the heart of daily punishment and sufferings, in the very wheels of encroaching mediocrity, are found both the keys and the doors to inner worlds.
Jean-Pierre Turmel
#63. By definition, confusion is beneficial to mediocrity.
Laurence Cosse
#64. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.
Aleksandar Hemon
#65. It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
Peter Drucker
#66. Dependency purges people of their dreams, makes their spirit atrophy, and enslaves them to a lifetime of mediocrity.
Frank Sonnenberg
#67. Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life.
Auliq Ice
#69. It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
Richard Yates
#70. To be ridiculed for your genius is better than to be praised for your mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. Don't set out to raze all shrines, you'll frighten men. enshrine mediocrity-and the shrines are razed.
Ayn Rand
#72. Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Hugh Blair
#73. He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
Thomas Mann
#74. Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
Harold Bloom
#75. Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#76. There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#77. 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
#78. Mediocrity has nothing to do with how you compare to other people; it's simply a result of not making the commitment to continuously learn, grow, and improve yourself.
Hal Elrod
#79. Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
Andrew Keen
#80. Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
Anthony Daniels
#81. If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
Matthew Arnold
#82. Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime - the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.
John Irving
#83. ... the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
C.S. Lewis
#84. Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
George Lois
#85. When a person puts on a show, trying to appear great, their mediocrity is soon exposed.
Lao-Tzu
#86. 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
#87. Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
#88. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
William Arthur Ward
#90. The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate can fatigue the spirit while the disaster can amuse with its drastic misjudgments and desperation gambles.
Ethan Mordden
#92. We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles.
Albert Camus
#93. Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.
Vernor Vinge
#94. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#95. And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.
Benjamin Kane Ethridge
#96. I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.
Jaime Camil
#97. I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.
Rick Perry
#98. By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Charles Saatchi
#99. No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity.
Martin De Maat
#100. He was a typical specimen of the younger son in avid pursuit of mediocrity with which the Theurgist's teemed:
Zen Cho
