When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.
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
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.
Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.
Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.
Passionately protest mediocrity.
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.