Best Mediocrity Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

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

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.

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.

I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it’s through not being able to connect with mediocrity. When I was younger I was a punk and then when I got married and had children I became a mother. They are the only two memberships to any clan-like cultures that I have ever embraced.

Today we’ve learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

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.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

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

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity …and you’ve got it made.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It’s escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It’s one more for trying to be less. It’s become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.

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 very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people – charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses – everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. … All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

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.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It’s like passing around samples of sputum.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk,? but no flowers grow on it.