Facebook share Tweet This Email this
I hope you like these quotes about Mediocrity from the collection at Life Quotes and Sayings.
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
Related topics: Christian Religion
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
If something is important to you,
attend to it immediately, and regularly.
If something is not really important to you,
that's great also -
just scratch it off your to-do list forever,
and never worry about it again.
Choose how you invest your time, and honor your choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Thank you for visiting: Mediocrity Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Mediocrity.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search or browse my large collection of Quotes about Life.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may read about our disclaimer, our privacy policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, and copyright policy.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.