354 Quotes About Mediocrity

When leaders tolerate mediocrity, it’s a cancer that spreads like wildfire.

The shortest route between where I’m at and where I want to go is a straight line. However, if where I want to go in life is where I’m at, a line is unnecessary. In that case, so is just about everything else.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.

If you do anything with mediocrity, you will do everything with mediocrity.

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

Greg knew he was just one little speck in this gauntlet that every person both ran and worked to maintain. The system that, while striving to let no part of a human life which could feed it go to waste, in turn left the potential for greatness to lie fallow. Better that a hundred thousand mundane tasks were done reliably, than to wait for the brilliant breakthrough that would turn the world on its axis.

La envidia es el homenaje que la mediocridad le rinde al talento.