James Roday Quotes

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

I think people just like seeing failure.

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

If anyone thinks my show was 'pretty good,' then I've completely failed.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

Never settle for average.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Success is overrated.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.