Top 597 Mediocrity Quotes & Sayings

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

Mediocrity is underrated.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.

Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

Passionately protest mediocrity.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Mediocrity always attacks excellence.

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

The only sin is mediocrity.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

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.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Mediocrity is contextual.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.