76 Mediocrity Quotes for You to Enjoy

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. Scott Alexander

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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. Hunter S. Thompson

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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm Mediocrity Spells Magic Between Real Accomplishment Difference

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity. Eva Moskowitz

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Victor Hugo

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. Warren Bennis

Teacher Better Mediocrity Everywhere Insights Only Excellence Studying Exemplary Truly Than Ordinary Lessons Original Found Profound

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. Lee Siegel

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When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. Maximillian Degenerez

You Mediocrity Back Excellence Had Go Taste Cannot

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. Nelson Boswell

Mistake Mediocrity Individual Between How Greatness Often Difference Views

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Blaise Pascal

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Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me. Chris Pine

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We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses. Jen Sincero

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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. John W. Gardner

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller

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You don't hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that they'll make a valuable contribution and turn in amazing work. But, in order to have that expectation, you need to make sure you're fostering an environment that allows them to do so. Kathryn Minshew

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I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point? Phoebe Philo

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There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. Sean Penn

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