Quotes about mediocre

All people are standing you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less rise up and stand tall in what you do!

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results.

Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.

Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.

Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

Life without madness is mediocrity.

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. H