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Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.