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

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.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his...

Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book...

We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be...

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don’t call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?

Compromise is a sign you’ll pass on the road to mediocrity.

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we...

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie.

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God’s goal of the impossible.

Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than...

the lack of money is the ruler of purpose where mediocrity is the king of the mind

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you’d told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You’d had one...

Literature is air, and I’m suffocating in mediocrity.

I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and...

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

Don’t Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence

Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity.

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person...

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn’t know your worth from the beginning, or...

If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream...

Don’t embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off… Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.