Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.
Envy is the religion of the mediocre
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.
Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.
There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
There is only good art and mediocre art.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
You can't be the head, if you are a mediocre.
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.