Mediocre Quotes

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Great, Minds, Opposition

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wind, Fans

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Good, Great, Teacher

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Education, Bad, Same

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

Wisdom, Mediocrity, Discourage

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett

Time, Enemy, Friend

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Minds, Beyond, Dismiss

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Uta Hagen

Chance, Overcome, Regular

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead

Women, Men, Working

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles

Perfect, Movie, Refuge

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

Great, Idea, Enthusiasm

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Faith, Great, Yourself

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil

Great, Human, Him

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de Beauvoir

Women, Himself, Feels

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere

Good, Mind, Thinks

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
Tom Stoppard

Great, Black, Comedy

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
Edwin Louis Cole

Work, Men, Best

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Success, Sometimes, Worry

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine Albright

Work, Women, Men

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
Samuel Goldwyn

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Brigitte Bardot

Leaving, Dirty, Town

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
Billy Wilder

Track, Absolutely

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
Brigitte Bardot

Acting, Film, Cheap

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly

Talent, Touch, Golden

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
James Cash Penney

Time, Living, Phase

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller

Born, Mediocrity, Achieve

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
Adam Carolla

Funny, Humor, Fire

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.
Kelly Brook

Smart, Friend, Pretty

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