Mediocrity Quotes

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

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.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.