Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Ayn Rand

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Courtney Love

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Claude Monet

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

David Foster Wallace

Mediocrity is contextual.

Debbi Fields

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Andy Stanley

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Boris Pasternak

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Bruce Henderson

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

Eddie McGuire

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Charles Lamb

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

There's just a lot of mediocrity out there. It's going to be real tough year for the committee.

J. Irwin Miller

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

Ivanka Trump

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

Seth Godin

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

Seth Godin

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

Seth Godin

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

John Suckling

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

Luc de Clapiers

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Monica Denise Brown

That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Neil Simon

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Tom Robbins

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

Raila Odinga

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

James C. Collins

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

James C. Collins

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

George S. Patton

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.