Top 597 Mediocrity Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.
There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.
Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.
Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.
Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.
I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.
I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Rock 'n' roll, for me, is another award for underachievers. It is nothing but a testament to mediocrity.
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.
Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
