354 Quotes About Mediocrity

In none of her lives will she be brilliant or famous or content. Her mediocrity will hound her through a kaleidoscope of futures.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Mediocrity is Death.

Mediocrity-the artist's hell.

You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.

The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.

The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself.

If I could understand that every ‘reality’ was once a ‘wish’, and that it moved from the latter to the former because someone was committed enough to make it so, I’d be the person that I want verses the person I’ve become.