Motivational Quotes

Mediocrity

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Mediocrity

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

Russell, Walter

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Alexander, Scott

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Winans, William M.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Lowell, James Russell

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Dawes, Charles G.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Carlyle, Thomas

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

Moore, Brian

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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Let others lead small lives, but not you.Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Pascal, Blaise

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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Haskins, Henry S.

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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

Ruskin, John

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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.

Murphy, Tom

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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.

Proverb, German

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There 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!

Bruyere, Jean De La

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.