Mediocre Quotes

• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

  Uta Hagen

  Life, Self Esteem, Women

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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• Only the mediocre are always at their best.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mediocrity

  Jean Giraudoux (2002). “Choice of the Elect”

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• Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Mind, Atheism

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 375, 1678.

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

  Junior Seau

  Failing, Not Afraid, Afraid To Fail

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• Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Jealousy, Envy, Catholic

  "Walk with God".

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• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

  Alan Turing

  Powerful, Brain, Telephones

  Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

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• Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Maturity, Love Is

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• Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Character, Air, Knowing

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• Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Sisterhood, Want

  In Quote Magazine 15 June 1958

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• I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Author, activist Howard Zinn dies", www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2010.

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• For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, People, Giving

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.451, University of Toronto Press

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• Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.

  Nick Saban

  Hate, People, Achiever

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• Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

  Nick Saban

  People, Achiever

  "Sea of crimson in Big Orange country for Nick Saban speech" by Evan Woodbery, www.knoxnews.com. June 11, 2013.

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• A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Talent, Tombs, Gilded

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Art and Letters'

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• Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Games, Hatred

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.275, Modern Library

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

  Chet Atkins

  Music, Done, Jazz

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Play, Quality

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