Quotes by Mediocrity Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity. Luc de Clapiers mediocrity office men It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. Luc de Clapiers mediocrity praise . . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity. Madeline Miller eclipse mediocrity dirty Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on. Marc Maron mediocrity genius thinking But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it. Margaret Benson mediocrity want average Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness. Margaret Fuller mediocrity fancy age Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door. Marie Arana mediocrity doors way Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. Marie Corelli envy mediocrity greatness Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity. Marlon Brando momentum surrender mediocrity I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity. Martha Graham mediocrity sin dance No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity." Martin de Maat banner streets mediocrity Mediocrity is underrated. Mary-Louise Parker underrated mediocrity Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself. Mary Wortley Montagu mediocrity genius beauty It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence. Matthew Kelly mediocrity excellence energy If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer. Matthew Arnold heroism mediocrity men Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time. Mason Cooley mediocrity ambition time Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle. Mason Cooley mediocrity achievement struggle To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity. Michael Eisner another-way mediocrity way We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too. Michael J. Gelb junk mediocrity people That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa Monica Denise Brown samoa monica mediocrity «56789101112131415»
