Mediocre Quotes

“Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
― Steve Maraboli

“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Great danger is always associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing to take the risk.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”
― Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War

“Life without madness is mediocrity.”
― Nelou Keramati

“Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.”
― Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; lions have little in common with sheep.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is no trivia in a strategic mind.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“If you want to fly under the radar, mediocrity is the aircraft of choice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you settle for mediocrity, you’ll ultimately become mediocre.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“There’s anger in danger, and danger in anger. Of all the letters to be, be OK. But don't be mediocre, because even ducks strive to be dominant.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“He tried very hard not to do anyone great evil and mostly succeeded. He also tried very hard to do great works, but, unfortunately, he didn't succeed so well at that. The result was a very mediocre King; he doubted if he would be remembered long after he was dead.”
― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

“...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place prominently on a mantel in the Berlin residence he hoped one day to die in, an urn that would serve as a reminder of the perils and pitfalls of mediocrity.”
― Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love, for real.”
― Lebo Grand

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love, for real?”
― Lebo Grand

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love or that we are alive, for real?”
― Lebo Grand

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love or that we are alive for that matter?”
― Lebo Grand

“I’m looking for what I fear finding. For what if the thing I find demands everything of me, when in and of myself I will demand only what I find to be comfortable? And somewhere within me I know that while I can settle for comfort, there will always be a gnawing angst that I missed something I never should have missed. And I will never find comfort in that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Pursuing impossible goals,
as much as aiming for mediocre goals,
is a recipe for misfortune:
the secret is in balance.”
― Augusto Branco

“Jedi, understand this: There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else. What a messed-up, lousy existence. And in this great country of Japan - the birthplace of all my fancy ancestors - everyone, everyone wants to be like everybody else. That's why it is such a safe place to live, but it's also a dinosaur village. It's extinct, pal. Carve up your piece and invest your spoils elsewhere. You're a young man, and someone should tell you the real truth about this country. Japan is not fucked because it lost the war or did bad things. Japan is fucked because there is no more war, and in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different. The other thing is that the elite Japanese want to be English and white. That's pathetic, delusional, and merits another discussion entirely.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“If people find you relatable, you’re mediocre at best.”
― Lebo Grand

“Mediocrity often touts itself as both courageous and visionary so that it might escape the shame of being neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mediocrity is a talent for mediocrity.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov