Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
I am incapable of mediocrity.
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
. . . beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
Half talent is no talent.