Mediocrity Quotes & Sayings
These mediocrity quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. - W. Somerset Maugham
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. - Dame Margot Fonteyn
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! - Jean De La Bruyere
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller
Perseverance: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. - Sir Francis Bacon