Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Mediocrity is underrated.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

I was not real good at anything. I was just OK at everything.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

I want to be great, not good.

I want to be great. I want to be the best.

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

I don't want to be good, I want to be great.

Most people can do nothing at all well

I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

Greatness has entered the ring! Thank you very much you may bow at will!

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

None of the arts are any good unless you really are great at them.

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

Refuse to be average.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Never settle for average.