Mediocrity Quotes
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Tags: Success, Virtue ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceIt is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Tags: Excellent, Lies ✍ Author: Isaac D\'IsraeliMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Tags: Genius, Talk ✍ Author: Benjamin DisraeliMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Tags: Genius, Talent ✍ Author: Arthur Conan DoyleThere is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Tags: Fresh, Generation ✍ Author: Paul GauguinMediocrity 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.
Tags: Dangerous, Successful ✍ Author: William E. GladstoneIn the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Tags: Dangerous, Genius ✍ Author: Robert Green IngersollWe 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.
Tags: State, Touching ✍ Author: Tahar Ben JellounWe 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.
Tags: Another, Men ✍ Author: Charles LambThere 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.
Tags: Activity, Group ✍ Author: Vladimir NabokovNothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Tags: Either, Whatever ✍ Author: Blaise PascalThere is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Tags: Between, Real ✍ Author: Norman Vincent PealeMost 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.
Tags: Discourage, Wisdom ✍ Author: Robert Louis StevensonLiterature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Tags: Air, Literature ✍ Author: Armand AssanteIt's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Tags: Gratitude, Sign ✍ Author: Roberto BenigniExcellence 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.
Tags: Found, Teacher ✍ Author: Warren BennisVisit partners pages
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
Tags: Fame, Men ✍ Author: David BowiePeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Tags: Matter, Themselves ✍ Author: Andrew CarnegieA talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Tags: Genius, Talent ✍ Author: Tre CoolThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Tags: Tendency ✍ Author: James F. CooperThere's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Tags: Century, Committee ✍ Author: Benedict CumberbatchWhat compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
Tags: Women, Writing ✍ Author: Henry Ian CusickMediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Tags: Dignity, Preserve ✍ Author: Charles G. DawesEvery orientation presupposes a disorientation.
Tags: Greatness, Politics ✍ Author: Hans Magnus EnzensbergerAny sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Tags: Art, Life ✍ Author: Margot FonteynMediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Tags: Force, Win ✍ Author: Ellen GlasgowVirtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Tags: Either, Virtue ✍ Author: Rutherford B. HayesSome people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Tags: Achieve, Born ✍ Author: Joseph HellerSome men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Tags: Born, Men ✍ Author: Joseph HellerAny 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.
Tags: Plan, Possible ✍ Author: Arthur HendersonBeing famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
Tags: Famous, Successful ✍ Author: William HurtWe shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
Tags: Accept, Best ✍ Author: Joe ManchinThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Tags: General, Power ✍ Author: John Stuart MillCompetition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
Tags: Best, Good ✍ Author: Stuart PearceThere's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Tags: Stuff, Wonderful ✍ Author: Sean PennA 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.
Tags: Strong, Weak ✍ Author: Pierre-Joseph ProudhonGo for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
Tags: Gold, Great ✍ Author: Alfred P. SloanEverything about mediocrity kills me.
✍ Author: Ivanka TrumpPoliticians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
Tags: Good, Public ✍ Author: Steve Wilkos