Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes. . . flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.
The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity
Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity. " "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. " "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.
The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.