Best 347 quotes in «mediocrity quotes» category

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.

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

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

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.

Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.