#mediocrity

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

— Herman Melville

#any #before #best #children #even

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. ↗

— Anne Rice

#bets #mediocrity #more #need #world

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#attempts #conceived #console #discourage #generally

We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history. ↗

— Matthew Kelly

#mediocrity #p #life

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. ↗

— Henry S. Haskins

#good #good behavior #last #mediocrity #refuge

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

#competitors #corporate #demonstrate #disadvantage #distinct

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Baldwin

#horror #i #mediocrity #rising

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

#artist #excellence #mediocrity #writer #writing

my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness ↗

— Mil Millington

#humor #mediocrity #beauty