Mediocrity Quotes

The only sin is mediocrity.

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams...

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far mor...

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambit...

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your la...

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument hand...

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating ...

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the h...

Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on...

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a...

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowle...

Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But b...

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they ...

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they ...

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Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No...

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to...

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think the...

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will...

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s posses...

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fo...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be ver...

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and fail...

The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, th...

It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the...

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power amon...

We live in an age of mediocrity.