Most of us are conditioned to accept mediocrity which holds us back from real success. To overcome mediocrity, you should be the first one in line to test it out when someone says it can’t be done, or that it is impossible. Inspirational mediocrity quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Most Famous Mediocrity Quotes
Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. – Dr Steve Maraboli
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself. – George S. Patton Jr
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash
Without enthusiasm, you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles. – Og Mandino
A life of mediocrity is a waste of life. – Colleen Hoover
It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. – Roberto Benigni
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. – C. S. Lewis
Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. – Steve Maraboli
Don’t waste your life. No one chooses mediocrity but many settle for it. Never settle. – Anonymous
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition. – Hugh B. Brown
The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. – Eric Thomas
I’d made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it. – Haruki Murakami
Be fearful of mediocrity. – Jonathan Elery
Don’t settle for mediocrity. Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion. Rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It’s really worth it. – Brian Cranston
To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced. – Confucius
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Passionately protest mediocrity. – Anonymous
Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. – Chet Atkins
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity. – Henry Ford
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. – Maximillian Degenerez
You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. – Sarah Vowell
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. – Joseph Joubert
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. – Robert G. Ingersoll
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. – Oscar Wilde
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. – Joseph Joubert
Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard. – Israelmore Ayivor
Mediocrity doesn’t mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. – Ayn Rand
I try to keep an open mind but I’m so tired of the mediocrity. – Clea Duvall
Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity. – Will Smith
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. – Colin Powell
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. – Max Beerbohm
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. – Henry S. Haskins
Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity. – Terry Crews
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. – Andrew Carnegie
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. – Fulton J. Sheen
You are born into genius. But have you resigned yourself to mediocrity? – Robin Sharma
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. – William E. Gladstone
In our desire to please everyone, it’s very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. – Seth Godin
Don’t settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough. – Joel Osteen
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. – William Arthur Ward
And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams. – Gustave Flaubert
Only the mediocre are always at their best. – Jean Giraudoux
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. – Criss Jami
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitations of thought and interest, it’s dullness of fancy, it’s too external life, and mental thinness. – Margaret Fuller
It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence. – Matthew Kelly
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. – Margaret Mead
Mediocrity doesn’t mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. – Ayn Rand
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. – Isaac D’Israeli
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
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
The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort. – Diana Waring
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. – Andre Carnegie
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. – Joseph Heller
To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable! – Israelmore Ayivor
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity. – Marlon Brando
You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity. – Onyi Anyado
Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people. – Napoleon Hill
It is cruel to discover one’s mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. – W. Somerset Maugham
There’s a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. – Sean Penn
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Once you have experienced excellence, you will never again be content with mediocrity. – Thomas S. Monson
Only mediocrity escapes criticism. – John Steinbeck
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. – Paul Gauguin
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. – Ambrose Bierce
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. – Robert G. Ingersoll
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent easily recognizes genius. – Arthur Conan Doyle
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. – Anonymous
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. – Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. – Blaise Pascal
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
Better for everyone that you do what you’re really good at and love to do than be yet another example of mediocrity. – John Williams
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. – Charles G. Dawes
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition. – Hugh B. Brown
Don’t settle for mediocrity when you were created for greatness. Know who you are. – Anonymous
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. – Maureen Dowd
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. – James Russell Lowell
The way that I am now, I don’t want to accept mediocrity. I don’t want to accept the easy road. – Joe Nichols
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. – William M. Winans
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. – A. W. Tozer
My life goal is to silence the voice in my head that screams out for mediocrity. – Anonymous
Are you really happy or just comfortable? – Anonymous
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. – Oscar Wilde
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. – Albert Camus
When you tolerate mediocrity, you get more of it. – Frank Sonnenberg
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. – Nelson Boswell
Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her ‘the miracle of life’ but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are? – Hal Elrod
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. – Walter Russell
If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life. – John Assaraf
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn’t to be found. – Kathleen Norris
The world doesn’t need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. – Anne Rice
Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard. – Israelmore Ayivor
Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success. – Greg Werner
Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings. – Anonymous
Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don’t accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. – Robin Sharma
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. – Napoleon Bonaparte
