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.

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

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

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.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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