Mediocrity Quotes
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.
I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.
Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?
When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.
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.
Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity.
Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.
Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.
An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a dissatisfaction that keeps one a step away from sliding into mediocrity.
If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.
for me, to say I yet to begin gives me reasons not to look back and see what I have done but, to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
for me, to say that I am yet to begin gives me the real reason not to look back and see what I have done but, to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.
Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort
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.
Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness.
Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.
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.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?
Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.
Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.
There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.
The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.
Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.
In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!
Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.
We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.
Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!
The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.
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.
