Mediocrity Quotes

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

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

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.