Quotes about Mediocrity

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

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

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

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

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

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.