Seth Godin Quotes

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

… the commonest little dog I have ever seen, without one sign of distinction

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

You never want to be too comfortable because that's when you start to get complacent and start doing those little stupid things and getting too relaxed.

I don't have any special skills or any hidden talents. I don't.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Insanity is coasting through life.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.