Mediocrity Quotes
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. (Quote by - Warren G. Bennis)
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. (Quote by - Uta Hagen)
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. (Quote by - L.A. Safian)
Little things affect little minds. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. (Quote by - Hugh Blair)
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. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. (Quote by - Paul Gauguin)
I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity. (Quote by - Robert Baldwin)
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard. (Quote by - Ernst Lubitsch)
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. (Quote by - Armand Assante)
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. (Quote by - Chet Atkins)
Malice is only another name for mediocrity. (Quote by - Patrick Kavanagh)
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. (Quote by - Fred A. Allen)
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. (Quote by - William Hurt)
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.". (Quote by - Pauline Kael)
The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. (Quote by - Hugh Trevor-Roper)
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that. (Quote by - Kim Cattrall)
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. (Quote by - Sean Penn)
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. (Quote by - Anne Rice)
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. (Quote by - Mario Batali)
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. (Quote by - W Somerset Maugham)
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. (Quote by - Margot Fonteyn)
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. (Quote by - Nicolas Chamfort)
Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. (Quote by - Icelandic Proverb)
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. (Quote by - Balthasar Gracian)
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. (Quote by - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. (Quote by - Rene Magritte)
Mechanization best serves mediocrity. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. (Quote by - Joe Manchin)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Quote by - Sorphia Loren)
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. (Quote by - Rutherford B. Hayes)
The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. (Quote by - Mikhail Baryshnikov)
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. (Quote by - George Will)
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. (Quote by - Allan Sloan)
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. (Quote by - Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. (Quote by - Cesare Lombroso)
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. (Quote by - William M. Winans)
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. (Quote by - James F. Cooper)
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity. (Quote by - Clea Duvall)
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. (Quote by - Fulton J. Sheen)
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out. (Quote by - Hank Ketcham)
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. (Quote by - Margot Fonteyn)
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. (Quote by - Isaac Disraeli)
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. (Quote by - Kathleen Norris)
Media, the plural of mediocrity. (Quote by - Jimmy Breslin)
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. (Quote by - Nelson Boswell)
Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been. (Quote by - Debbi Fields)
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. (Quote by - Jackie Cooper)
The only sin is mediocrity. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Quote by - Henry S. Haskins)
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. (Quote by - Sir Max Beerbohm)
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. (Quote by - Bruce Henderson)
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. (Quote by - Victor Hugo )
Only the mediocre are always at their best. (Quote by - Jean Giraudoux)
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. (Quote by - Roberto Benigni)
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. (Quote by - Scott Alexander)
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. (Quote by - Theodor Reik)
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. (Quote by - James F. Cooper)
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. (Quote by - William Hurt)
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. (Quote by - Charles G. Dawes)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. (Quote by - Claude Bernard)
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
