Quotes About Mediocrity

in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different.

all those able-bodied middle-class people who are scared of their shadows, well, they pay the mediocre tax in regular quarterly installments with compounding interest. When you play it safe, that's what happens, my friend. So if I were you, I wouldn't throw any games. I'd use every fucking advantage. Beat anyone who fucks with you to a fucking pulp. Show no mercy to chumps, especially if they don't deserve it. Make the pussies cry.

You're buying into this celebrity bullshit? Don't you know it's all a facile celebration of commerce and mediocrity?

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

They both believed that the enemy of better is best, and the tomb of the extra-ordinary is the ordinary.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Pride separates excellence from mediocrity

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Only a mediocre man is always at his best

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

Reading is an unsurpassable drug, because more than just the mediocrity of our lives, it allows us to escape the mediocrity of our souls.

If the world is condemned to mediocrity, if heroes are no more than statues and mythical figures and if adventure is for madmen then let us condemn ourselves to glory, let us become myth and let us be madmen, for the herd is already too numerous.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

Nicht nach der Wahrheit zu suchen ist ein Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; doch es ist kein Zeichen der Größe, sie zu finden.

Not seeking the truth is a sign of mediocrity; but it is no sign of greatness to find them.

When the dust raised by the great events of modern history settles, the mediocrity of the protagonists leaves the historian dumbfounded.

The genius who bemoans and laments himself forgets that he has spared himself the misfortune of mediocrity.

A limited population produces fewer ordinary intelligences than a numerous population, but it can produce an equal or greater number of talents. Great demographic densities are the breeding grounds of mediocrity.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.