The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Fred Allen
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac Disraeli
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
Kathleen Norris
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
James Russell Lowell
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
James Fenimore Cooper
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Max Beerbohm
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Ayn Rand