Settling For Mediocre Quotes & Sayings

The world needs more dreamers, more peak performers, more people who aren't content settling for mediocre. It's time to stand up and create the future and life you love. — Michelle McCullough

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact. — Daniel Kahneman

The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing. — Hakan Nesser

What does borderline personality mean, anyhow? It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche. Though to quote my post-Melvin psychiatrist: "It's what they call people whose lifestyles bother them. — Susanna Kaysen

Moreover, the mastermind's tactics are disarming if not seductive. As I wrote in Ameritopia, "[w]here utopianism is advanced through gradualism . . . it can deceive . . . an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. — Mark R. Levin

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job. — Jacques Delors

What's certain is that I don't need the stress. — Barack Obama

Good environmentalism is good economics — Barber Conable

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well. — Nicole Richie

I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point? — Daphne Oz

No sense in settling for mediocre minions — A. Dalcourt

The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre. — Seth Godin

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on. — Nina Dobrev

How reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don't just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important - these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For — Morris Berman

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. — John Ortberg

Because I had no awareness of who I was or what I needed, I found myself settling for a mediocre relationship rather than holding out for what was best. — Debra Fileta

Don't tolerate any form of average. Don't accept Dis-excellence. Don't stand for mediocre. If you're going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best. — Robin Sharma

Eating is not a pleasant business. I chew off a man's arm, and I hate it.
Of course if I don't eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make me feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. — Isaac Marion

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling. — Alexandra Adornetto