Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.
He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.
Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
Whether you look at these recent PISA results, which we are mediocre at best, whether you look at a 25 percent dropout rate in this country, whether you look at, in one generation, we're not doing what we need to be doing to keep America great.
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre. " That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.
I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!