Mediocrity Quotes

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman w. - Lord Chesterfield

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. - Napoleon Bonaparte

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order. - Auguste Preault

We're two different people, but we have a lot of the same values when it comes to music. First of all, neither one of us has any tolerance for anyone who half-steps. Mediocrity is not an option. And we both like to swing. - Russell Malone

We're at a time in our history right now where we can move our state forward as never seen before or we can continue to languish in mediocrity and complacency... I choose to move forward and help write this history, not just be part of it. - Ray Nagin

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We worship mediocrity and wait to see what happens up on high. - Bad Religion

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. - Joe Manchin

We live in an age of mediocrity. - Lauren Bacall