Quotes About Mediocrity

There is a real magic in enthuiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Rousseaux was considered the pope of book critics, and reading L'Etranger made him reflect: "It seems that the crisis of the novel gets a little worse every day. Young novelists' debuts do not just mostly reveal mediocre talents.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure.

Tolerating mediocrity is as dangerous as inviting failure

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

Even if it is true that the average man seems most comfortable with the commonplace and familiar, it is equally true that catering to bad taste, which we so readily attribute to the average reader, merely perpetuates that mediocrity and denies the reader one of the most easily accessible means for esthetic development and eventual enjoyment.

TV accustoms people to not expecting much.

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"—only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

Good enough, never is.

Mediocrity recognizes nothing higher than itself. It takes talent to appreciate genius.