Mediocre Quotes

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

You can't be the head, if you are a mediocre.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

It's more than magnificent; it's mediocre.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.