Being Average Quotes

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

There's value in being a normal person.

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.

When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.