Top 1200 Mediocre Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

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

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

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

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

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

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

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

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I enjoy making feature films, but I'd rather be in a good TV series than mediocre movies.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

Florida surfers learn how to be great on mediocre waves. It trains you, gives you endurance.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.