354 Quotes About Mediocrity

Mediocrity is a choice. I hope you choose to say ‘NO!

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness