Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve
mediocrity, and some men have
mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. (Catch-22)
View quotes by Joseph HellerWealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in
mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAll good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and
mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
View quotes by Scott AlexanderMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIt is cruel to discover one's
mediocrity only when it is too late. - Of Human Bondage
View quotes by W Somerset MaughamThere are certain things in which
mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereThere is always a heavy demand for fresh
mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite
View quotes by Paul GauguinThe idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable
mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
View quotes by John GardnerMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
View quotes by Benjamin DisraeliMen of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a
mediocrity of success.
View quotes by Dale CarnegieWe gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in
mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
View quotes by Charles LambThe real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of
mediocrity.
View quotes by Eric HofferOnly
mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
View quotes by Max BeerbohmAny sort of pretension induces
mediocrity in art and life alike
View quotes by Margot FonteynThere is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between
mediocrity and accomplishment
View quotes by Norman Vincent PealeMediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
View quotes by Charles DawesMediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. [Does that explain politicians?]
View quotes by Hans EnzensbergerBe great at what you do, and don't ever settle for
mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.
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