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• I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

  Walter Russell

  Believe, Self, Secret

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• You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 26, 2013

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• In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Writing, Character, Fate

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• Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Range, Caliber

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• Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Thinking, Keys

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• You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

  John H. Vandenberg

  Life, Time, Knowledge

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• You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

  Van Morrison

  Faith, Inspiration, Fighting

  Song: Keep Mediocrity at Bay, Album: Magic Time, 2005

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• Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, Dangerous, Critics

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• Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Confidence, Hands, Rail

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• It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

  Ramachandra Guha

  Democracy, Visionaries, Sometimes

  Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan

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• Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Genius, May

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.204, Spiegel & Grau

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• Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Passion, Persistence, Hands

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• There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Work, Reality

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• Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Motivational, Sports, Creativity

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• At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

  Eric Chaisson

  Special, Groups, Inventory

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.90, Columbia University Press

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• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Hopeless

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• I am incapable of mediocrity.

  Serge Gainsbourg

  Pride, Incapable

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• If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Tired

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Tired, Spiritual Leadership, Fatigue

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

  Juan Villoro

  Crime, Redeemed

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• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

  Joseph Cook

  Talent, Tact, Thrive

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you

  Jim Rohn

  Purpose, Small Life, Real Estate Motivational

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• An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

  Kip Tindell

  Fun, Smart, Achievement

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• They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Doe, Limiting Beliefs

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 26, 2017

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• A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Paper, Dozen

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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