Mediocre Quotes

“Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.”
― Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

“Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived; it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.”
― Thomas Dubay, Seeking Spiritual Direction: How to Grow the Divine Life Within

“Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Don’t embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off… Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.”
― Karl Menninger

“If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort”
― Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

“Societies are mediocre, individuals are excellent.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Break out to go out
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The birds dare to break the egg shell
It does so in order to get out of that Hell
When it finally succeeds, it’ll then fly
To its comfort zone it’ll say bye

Are you being confined in a small space
How long will you remain at that place?
Before you can explore more territories,
Break away from the former glories.

Yesterday’s excellence is today’s average
You must strive to be better age after age
Never accept the available mediocrity
As the only preferable opportunity

Decide to grow from below to hero
And make it a point to vacate level zero
Reach out and arise with power
God’s blessings on you, will shower

Agree to grow, never attempt to be slow
Be not afraid. Never doubt. You’ll flow
The grace of God will be your guide
Taking you along, side by side.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I am not a success if all I do is fit into somebody's prescription; its better to stand out and be celebrated for being a definition. The world would prefer to take the bitter pills of an achiever than the sweet chocolates of a mediocre.”
― Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose

“Mediocrity is what's left when vision is absent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

“Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially; later making a leather shoe; then later making a leather shoe with gold medal on top and then making a golden shoe with diamond medal on top; going to make a real diamond shoe!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“What does it profit man if he allows a nonentity to make him look irrelevant just because he wants to indirectly have him become a life member of the nonentity club? No man can make you less valuable except you enter into agreement with such man. Not all birds with wings have the mastery of soaring high....”
― Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose

“The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365