Quotes About Mediocrity

We'll elect any bumbling fool, any champion of mediocrity to the highest office in the land as long as they have God as their running mate.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.

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.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

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

Until you go and grow MAD with and in your true passion and purpose, you cannot enter the realm of meteority which is enemical to mediocrity.

Mediocrity in life is acceptable only when one excels at it.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.