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• 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

  Dream, Greatness, Mind

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.133, Jaico Publishing House

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• Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able

  Bobby Miller

  Religious, Lying, Laughing

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• Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

  Nick Murray

  Choices, Excellence, Quitting

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• We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.

  Larry Constantine

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Greatness, Choices, Risk

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.61, Crown Business

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• We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

  Newton N. Minow

  Creativity, People, Imagination

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Skins, Vineyards

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.45, Bantam

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• Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

  Eric Zorn

  Pushing, Tickets, Fear Of Failure

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• If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, People, Giving

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Risk, Want

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Dec 02, 2016

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• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baths, Groups, World

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America

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• He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

  Alain de Botton

  Heart, May, Faults

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

  Joe Nichols

  Want, Way, Easy

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• Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

  Nancy Pearcey

  People, Competition, Good Things

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• I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

  Howard Schultz

  Bystanders, Starbucks, Relevant

  "Starbucks legend delivers recovery by thinking smaller". Interview with David Teather, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

  Pope Francis

  Church, Nests, Universal

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Acceptance, Skills, Genius

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• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Patriotic, Land

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Donald J. Trump (2004). “Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received”, p.20, Crown Business

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• Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Greatness, Men

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

  Roberto Benigni

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You

  "Talking Shop At Oscar Time". Interview with Kenneth L. Woodward, www.newsweek.com. July 2, 1999.

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• Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Humble, Ambition

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.90, Counterpoint Press

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• You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live in mediocrity? Because that's all that the entitlements are going to do for you. Keep you living in the lowest socio-economic scale.

  Rafael Cruz

  Hands, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Painting, Public Speaking, Certain

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