Janis Joplin Quotes

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

You are what you settle for.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

Who you are is what you settle for, you know?

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I may appear to be full of myself because I always want better.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.