Mediocrity Quotes

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the same level. Everything has the same value, whether it's Albert Einstein speaking, or [email protected].

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

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

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

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

I am incapable of mediocrity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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 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.

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

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

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 excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

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

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.