Mediocrity Quotes - Page 5

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

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.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.