Quotes About Mediocrity

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

If mediocrity becomes the norm, the quantity of outstanding producers will decline, as will general prosperity.

We're getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has to offer? Is this it? All we can expect? If so, someone out there needs to feel sorry for us.

Whenever I feel we are being less than we could be, we talk about it. It's not always a long conversation. Sometimes it's simply a reminder that we could settle for mediocrity or we could create something truly exceptional. Our relationship is wonderful because it's a decision we make over and over.

When something is just bad (rather than Camp), it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition.

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

there are clear distinctions between what it takes to be decent, what it takes to be good, what it takes to be great, and what it takes to be among the best. If your goal is to be mediocre, then you have a considerable margin for error. You can get depressed when fired and mope around waiting for someone to call with a new job offer. If you hurt your toe, you can take six weeks watching television and eating potato chips.

Enemies keep you alert, competitive, and friendships lull you into mediocrity, and through peer pressure, keep you back and down, and eventually, down and out. Some of the most excellent friends I knew in my hometown became alcoholics, and true enough, they are fun to talk with, telling jokes and anecdotes, but they sacrificed their lives to their friendships, proving that they were fun, that they were not betraying friends by leaving hometown for large cities and countries and professions.

E para de falar porque volta a descobrir uma verdade universal que esquece todos os dias quando se deita. O mundo é conduzido por medíocres, egoístas e idiotas. Sobretudo estes últimos

Luego se detiene, pues vuelve a descubrir una verdad universal que olvida cada día cuando se acuesta. El mundo está manejado por los mediocres, los egoístas y los idiotas. Muy especialmente estos últimos.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.

if it's cool you're after, then you're knock-knock-knocking on the wrong door. My maximum ambition is to make it to normal.

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.