354 Quotes About Mediocrity

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends.

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

Don't let the mediocrity that surrounds you affect the creative machinery of your rich mind. Like how the incandescent beauty of the magnificent lotus is unaffected by the swampy mud that surrounds it.

A lot of people look intellectual and wise, but the mediocrity comes sailing through via their habits and when they start talking.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!

The only sin is mediocrity.

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

I sat down and found half a dead cigar in the ashtray. I lit it up, took a drag, gagged. Tried it again. Not too bad.