Quotes About Mediocrity

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.

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

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.

Ihmiset liittoutuvat kaltaistensa kanssa. Keskinkertaisen tukijoukot ovat sankimmat.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity; a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

Mediocrity is your enemy, satisfactory is your acquaintance, excellence is your friend, and genius is your soulmate.

They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time. They celebrate mediocrity at every available opportunity and love to see others' misfortune.

She had come to imagine mediocrity and disappointment were her destiny.

Wherever you find excellence, you find continuous learning. They go hand in hand. Wherever you find that continuous learning is missing, you find mediocrity.

History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre.

Les médiocres me tolère que d'être entourés de flateurs qui leur cachent à eux-même leur médiocrité.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever too.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style

The world is mediocre," Jed finally said. "And the person who committed this murder has increased the mediocrity in this world.

It is ultimately annoying to live in the middle of a period of mediocrities – especially when one feels incapable of raising the level. I doubt if I will produce any new philosophy; I think I would already have given some signs of this at my age; but I am pretty sure that I would produce better novels if the thinking around me were a little more inspiring.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

They detest you only because you stand so high above other men, and that is something that mediocre souls can never endure. And yet in each one of us lies the latent faculty of surpassing others. Of that I am sure.

my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness

The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

I'm not interested in fairness. And your God doesn't seem interested in fairness when He gives out talent. I see mediocrity or ambition most of the time. You have talent, but no ambition. That's why you're stuck here.