Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education
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Be A Queen!
Be a queen. Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge. Take it on! Be a truth seeker and rule your domain, whatever it is--your home, your office, your family with a loving heart.
Be a queen. Be tender. Continue to give birth to new ideas and rejoice in your womanhood. . . My prayer is that we will stop wasting time being mundane and mediocre. . . We are daughters of God--here to teach the world how to love. . . It doesn't matter what you've been through, where you come from, who your parents are --nor your social or economic status.
None of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world. . .
Be a queen. Own your power and your glory!
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The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore... Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible... It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.
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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
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A mediocre idea that guarantees enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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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.
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
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...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them ...
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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre.
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;
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There are too many mediocre things in life that we have to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them.
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The educational system in large countries will always be utterly mediocre, for the same reason that the cooking in large kitchens is mediocre ...
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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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