Quotes About Mediocrity

As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

Risk is more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mastery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire others by your bigness. Dream big but start small. Act now. Don't stop. Change the world.

Mediocrity is contextual.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy but do not want to engage in serious Bible study; they value moral probity, especially of the public sort, but do not engage in war against inner corruptions; they fret over the quality of the preacher's sermon but do not worry much over the quality of their own prayer life. Such Christians are content with mediocrity.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.