Quotes About Not Settling For Mediocrity

#1. I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.

Howard Schultz

#2. The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.

Elizabeth Chandler

#3. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Mae West

#4. For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Brandon Lee

#5. The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

Stephen Hawking

#6. This was the second stage in my life, a step in my personal evolution
abandoning the idea of being different, and settling for normal ... Gradually I drew nearer to the world, and the world drew nearer to me.

Haruki Murakami

#7. If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

Tom Hanks

#8. Why is Mediocrity now good enough?
When did crap become the new black?

Igor Goldkind

#9. Percocet? Seriously?" Brian laughed bitterly. "That's so nineties. He should at least update his addictions.

Rafael Yglesias

#10. Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Lauryn Hill

#11. If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity.

Benjamin Wood

#12. You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

Seth Godin

#13. Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Debbi Fields

#14. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

Seth Godin