Mediocrity Quotes - Page 2

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.