Mediocrity Quotes

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Scott Alexander

Good, Evil, Hard

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

Real, Between, Difference

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wisdom, Discourage, Ambitious

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy, Genius, Pays

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

Matter, Themselves, Impressive

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.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Age, Men

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Orison Swett Marden

Good, Best, Wrong

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

Great, Men, End

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.
James F. Cooper

Character, Him, Around

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce

Success, Virtue, Achieves

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.
Victor Hugo

Everything, Easy, Whatever

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.
Warren G. Bennis

Teacher, Found, Studying

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli

Talk, Genius, Observe

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing, Whatever, Either

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Genius, Dangerous, Republic

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.
Margot Fonteyn

Life, Great, Art

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.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Strong, Weak, Common

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Power, General, Mankind

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.
John W. Gardner

Life, Goal, Free

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing, Talent, Genius

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.
Charles Lamb

Men, Nothing, Another

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer

Real, Wine, Idea

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Vladimir Nabokov

Nothing, Group, Activity

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
Clea Duvall

Mind, Tired, Try

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Sean Penn

Wonderful, Stuff, Ignored

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli

Before, Lies, Excellent

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
David Bowie

Men, Fame, Thrust

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will

Good, Public, Paradox

The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham

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