Mediocrity Quotes - Page 24

• Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

  Claude Bernard

  Men, Mediocre

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

  Debbie Ford

  Life, Order, Light

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• There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

  Buck Rodgers

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Risk is more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mastery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire others by your bigness. Dream big but start small. Act now. Don't stop. Change the world.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Strong, Passion

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• But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

  Margaret Benson

  Average, Want, Facts

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

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• There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Two, People, Ceilings

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• You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

  Seth Godin

  Waiting, Bars, Status Quo

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• ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to their information or ignorance on whom their interested duperies were to be played off. Their sway in New England is indeed formidable. No mind beyond mediocrity dares there to develop itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Lying, Father

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• It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Greatness, Thinking, Self

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• It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

  Seth Godin

  Challenges, Status Quo, Uncomfortable

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

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• It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

  Seth Godin

  Settling, Status Quo, Uncomfortable

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

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• The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

  Seth Godin

  Leaving, Building, Status Quo

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• The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing themselves into who they need to create the life they want. DON'T BE LIKE 'MOST PEOPLE.'

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, People, Needs

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• Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

  Seth

  Expectations, Perception, Status Quo

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• Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

  Rory Vaden

  Excellence, Emotion

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.51, Penguin

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• To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

  Martin Dugard

  Life Lesson, Training, Mind

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.15, Rodale

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• The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.

  Walter Russell Bowie

  Sweet, Men, Two

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• Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Vices, Virtue, Extremes

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, December 21, 1843.

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• In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

  Ralph Marston

  Opportunity, Shining, Effort

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• We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Touching, Pits, States

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• We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

  Joe Manchin

  Politician, Accepting, Accept Me

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• Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Issues, Excellence, Reputation

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• Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

  Seneca the Younger

  Intelligence, Helping, Diligence

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• The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.

  Price Pritchett

  Exercise, Excellence, Way

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• Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Inspirational, Failure, Show Me

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