Mediocrity Quotes - Page 3

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.

They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Let others lead small lives, but not you