Quotes about Mediocrity

There is a real magic in enthuiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Their minds had become conditioned to accept not having enough, to always struggle and lack. The problem is that if you accept it as your way of life, you won't do anything about it. It's easy to get comfortable with mediocrity and just adapt to your environment.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers.

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.

They both believed that the enemy of better is best, and the tomb of the extra-ordinary is the ordinary.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

You can't talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you've got to think positive.