Mediocrity Quotes

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

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

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

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

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

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.

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

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.