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Quotes about mediocrity

  • All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. (Alexander Scott)
  • Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. (Alexander Scott)
  • When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. (Alexander Scott)
  • The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. (Alexander Scott)
  • Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole. (Alexander Scott)
  • Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. (Alexander Scott)
  • Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. (Alexander Scott)
  • Little things affect little minds. (Alexander Scott)
  • There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Alexander Scott)
  • Only the mediocre are always at their best. (Alexander Scott)
  • Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Alexander Scott)
  • Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. (Alexander Scott)
  • The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. (Alexander Scott)
  • In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. (Alexander Scott)
  • It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. (Alexander Scott)
  • The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. (Alexander Scott)
  • If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people. (Alexander Scott)
  • A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. (Alexander Scott)
  • They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. (Alexander Scott)
  • Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. (Alexander Scott)
  • 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. (Alexander Scott)
  • The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. (Alexander Scott)
  • Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. (Alexander Scott)
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