Settling for Mediocrity Quotes

We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

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

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

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.

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

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.