(193 quotes found)
“The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”
Blaise Pascal
“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 G. Bennis
“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best”
Max Beerbohm
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”
Margot Fonteyn
“Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.”
Saint Augustine
“Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
Joseph Heller
“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre”
Chet Atkins
“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”
George Lois
“Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike”
