Quotes About 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. 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

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

Brandon Lee

#4. If I had one last breath left, I would use it to tell you how much I love you, because I do, and I always will.

Sandi Lynn

#5. I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

Billy Collins

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

Igor Goldkind

#8. Honesty renders your heart defenceless, and lying fucks with your head. That's why I choose to remain silent and protect them both instead.

K.M. Golland

#9. 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

#10. Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers. It thinks it is a civil war, a rebellion, and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel.

C.S. Lewis

#11. I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

Bo Belinsky

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

Seth Godin

#13. A hero attacks in the moment, a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food. I

Mark Lawrence

#14. During the Democratic presidential debate Howard Dean started off by apologizing to the crowd for having a cold. Then John Kerry apologized for once having a cold while serving his country in Vietnam.

Conan O'Brien

#15. 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

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

Seth Godin