354 Quotes About Mediocrity

I'd rather take risks and walk with dignity into my grave than settle for mediocrity and live like a slave

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

Because of nothing but training, some people can effortlessly do something we cannot do even terribly.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all interested in making any progress in life, I might take a moment and consider the fact that two-thirds of these begin and end in the same place.

Apathy takes root when I refuse to remember that which I can ill-afford to forget.

If I'm on the 'short-end of the stick', there's a really good chance that it was my shortness of vision that put me there.

I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.

Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.