Top 1200 Mediocre Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

I'm not here to be mediocre.

I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

I never wanted to be mediocre at anything.

There aren't enough people who are passionate with what they do. They're content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don't want to thrive. They don't want to strive for greater. They're happy being where they are.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

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!

A high church for the true mediocre.

The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

I don't play to be mediocre.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not 'what are my options?' but 'What is possible?'

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

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

We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.

To be popular I must be mediocre.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

I would say I am a mediocre Christian.

Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

I don't want to be a mediocre player or average.

I was afraid I'd be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.

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

I could have been a mediocre tap dancer.

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

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to play this role.' It's more like, 'I want to work with this director,' regardless of what the role is because if it's a good director, you'll probably find a good role because it's a decent film. But a mediocre director will always make a mediocre movie.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

I was a pretty mediocre player.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

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

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

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

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

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

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

I'm not in the UFC to be mediocre.

It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.