Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old mediocrity quotes, mediocrity sayings, and mediocrity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.Mary Kay Ash
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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.Roberto Benigni
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I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.Haruki Murakami
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To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.Confucius
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.Chet Atkins
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You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.Sarah Vowell
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.Joseph Joubert
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I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.Clea Duvall
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.Max Beerbohm
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.Andrew Carnegie
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.William E. Gladstone
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.William Arthur Ward
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.Jean Giraudoux
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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.Criss Jami
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It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.Matthew Kelly
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.Margaret Mead
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Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.Ayn Rand
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.Isaac D'Israeli
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.Margot Fonteyn
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.Warren G. Bennis
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Heller
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To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!Israelmore Ayivor
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.W. Somerset Maugham
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There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.Sean Penn
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Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.Gordon B. Hinckley
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.Paul Gauguin
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.Ambrose Bierce
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.Blaise Pascal