It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous....

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived; it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!

fear is dangerous but fear is good

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid...

status quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final products to ever stand out of your personal actions!

it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone’s work prove greater than their own – they have no inkling of...

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

It’s because I haven’t courage,’ said Samuel. ‘I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called his name – but I did not. There...

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have...

Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God.

All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don’t settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!

I have learned in life to be happy regardless of life circumstancesI have learned in life to be humble in greatnessI have learned in life to respect everyone and not to look down upon othersI...

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

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.

Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter...

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

It’s a season with few highs and few lows, but the general level of mediocrity is higher than it has been.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone’s work prove greater than their own – they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal –...

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that’s all that seems to count. He’s rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with...

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which...

Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!

There’s never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

The only sin is mediocrity.

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!

What does it mean to be an ‘open source’ society? What does one mean when one says one has an ‘open mind’? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It...

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for creating your own private world…yet. Dramatics are fun, an indulgence. ‘You can’t go...

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

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

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

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.

Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond...

If you don’t want to be average, don’t rush into doing what the crowd is doing

Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity

It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. ‘Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.’ Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to...

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

Mediocrity-the artist’s hell.

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

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

Embracing mediocrity is not the way to improve schools.

A Gulp! a day keeps mediocrity at bay.