Quotes
Quotes about Mediocrity
I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?
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.
More than any other religion or, indeed, than any other element in human experience, Christianity has made for the intellectual advance of man in reducing languages to writing, creating literatures, promoting education from primary grades through institutions of university level, and stimulating the human mind and spirit to fresh explorations into the unknown. It has been the largest single factor in combating, on a world-wide scale, such ancient foes of man as war, famine, and the exploitation of one race by another. More than any other religion, it has made for the dignity of human personality. This it has done by a power inherent within it of lifting lives from selfishness, spiritual mediocrity, and moral defeat and disintegration, to unselfish achievement and contagious moral and spiritual power and by the high value which it set upon every human soul through the possibilities which it held out of endless growth in fellowship with the eternal God.
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
