| Author |
Quotes |
| Andrew Carnegie | People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. |
| Ayn Rand | Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. |
| Balthasar Gracian | Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. |
| Anonymous | A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity. |
| Cesare Lombroso | The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. |
| Charles G Dawes | Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. |
| Chet Atkins | Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. |
| Claude Bernard | Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. |
| Icelandic Proverb | Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. |
| Jean Giraudoux | Only the mediocre are always at their best. |
| John Stuart Mill | The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. |
| Joseph Heller | Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. |
| Kathleen Norris | Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. |
| L A Safian | Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. |
| Lily Tomlin | Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. |
| Mary Kay Ash | A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. |
| Nicolas Chamfort | The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. |
| Norman Vincent Peale | There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. |
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