A Quote by Antoine-Augustin Preault

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

Antoine-Augustin Preault

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Antoine-Augustin Preault
October 6, 1809 - January 11, 1879

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

Confucius

It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

Benjamin Graham

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Henry David Thoreau

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Charles G. Dawes

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Fulton J. Sheen

Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny.

George W. Bush

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

Peter Drucker

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

Benjamin Cardozo

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order. [...] Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. [...]

George W. Bush

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Joseph Cook

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.