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.

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...