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

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.

Does the mind come with beign human, or is it just a bonus some have?!

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can’t afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap.

Not that anyone wanted to settle for mediocrity, but I think there were times when guys didn’t realize how far they could push themselves. That’s something Coach Weis said right when he got here, that...

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won’t spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.

Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.

Maybe it’s an issue of being unable or unwilling to realize that we can actually impact things sufficiently to change things, rather than seeing ourselves as being exiled to some distant side line of life...

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average...

man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my...

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

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That’s my...

The illusionists of quantity are performing sleights of hand wherever it concerns the topic of quality. A profession that went from being second in command under the throne, to outsourced to the cheapest external providers,...

One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit.

Do not accept mediocrity from yourselves, do not accept it from your teachers and do not accept it from your elected officials.

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

You are a manager, nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing;...

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.

Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left...

Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.

The greatest killer of purpose and a purposeful life is compromising on mediocrity

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves ofhuman mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whosedams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart...

However, Nick acted as much as possible under the circumstances, and that was rectifying — it brought with it enjoyment and a working faith. He had not gone counter to the axiom that in a...

The abyss in which I live hasn’t the wit to save itself from savage ignorance, and I now feel assured that I am not in the company of my own species (at least, I hope...

Losing the first period 3-1 was an irritating factor to me. We had some chances to score and there were some things that were out of our control. Those are the factors that we want...

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Good leaders always bring about transformation… Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the...

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.

Competitively, I’m looking for the edge. I need to shave off inefficiencies and get rid of this Beard of Mediocrity.

complacency is nothing but an an awesome trigger of mediocrity and failure

Mediocrity is Death.

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

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.