mediocrity

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.

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Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don__ call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity.