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May you find great value in these Mediocrity quotes and sayings.
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
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Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.
- Osho
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
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