(193 quotes found)
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”
William Arthur Ward
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie
“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
Oscar Wilde
“"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters”
Ayn Rand
“Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.”
Walter Russell
“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.”
Scott Alexander
“It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us”
Isaac Disraeli
