Quotes About Mediocrity

Que otros se lamenten de que los tiempos son malos; yo me quejo de su mediocridad, puesto que ya no se tienen pasiones. ...Por eso mi alma se vuelve siempre al Viejo Testamento y a Shakespeare. Aquí se siente en todo caso la impresión de que son hombres los que hablan, aquí se odia y se ama de veras, se mata al enemigo, y se maldice a su descendencia por todas las generaciones; aquí se peca.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

Life without madness is mediocrity.

Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we'll do what we want.

the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity

after a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

In sober truth, whatever homage may be professed, or even paid, to real or supposed mental superiority, the general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Difference between excellence and mediocrity is nothing else but determined decision and quest to be recognized as a world-class and to remain a world-class. -Emeasoba George

Mediocrity/inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. intense dislike/devaluation of oneself/yourself.

Mediocrity/Inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. Mediocrity or Inferiority complex is nothing else but intense dislike or devaluation of oneself or your own self. Yes! that is just that. Thus, desist from that. ~Emeasoba George

No one can/will dare to make you a mediocre/an inferior person, until you personally/first accept mediocrity/inferiority complex as your fate. So, never ever think/feel/accept to be a mediocre/an inferior person.

Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.

Encontramos, na angústia dos que habitam regiões insólitas, o aspecto demoníaco da vida, mas também sua insignificância, o que explica que ela seja privilégio dos medíocres. Somente estes últimos vivem a uma temperatura normal; os outros, um fogo devorante os consome.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

A philosopher is saved from mediocrity only by skepticism or mystique, these two forms of despair in the front of knowledge. Mystique is an escape from knowledge, and skepticism is knowledge without hope. In both kinds world is not a solution.

Life is the privilege of mediocre people. Only mediocrities live at life's normal temperature; the others are consumed at temperatures at which life cannot endure, at which they can barely breathe, already one foot beyond life.

In many matters of business, perhaps in most, a continuity of mediocrity is better than a hotch-potch of excellences.

Împ?r?it? deopotriv?, for?a omeneasc? produce pro?ti sau mediocritate pretudindeni; inegal? îns?, d? na?tere acestor ciud??enii c?rora li se d? numele de "geniu" ?i care, dac? ar putea fi v?zute cu ochii, ar p?rea ni?te diformit??i.

We have forgotten that a society progresses only to the extent that it produces leaders that are capable of guiding and inspiring progress. And we cannot develop such leaders unless our standards of education are geared to excellence instead of mediocrity.

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.