Definition of Mediocre

Mediocre

Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.

A mediocre person.

A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties.

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Mediocre Quotations

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de Beauvoir

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Brigitte Bardot

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
Brigitte Bardot

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux

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.
Simone Weil

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Claude Bernard

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
Samuel Goldwyn

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Scott Caan

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
Edwin Louis Cole

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
Steven Chu

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.
Uta Hagen

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Uta Hagen

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
James Cash Penney

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen, Sr.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass

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Mediocre Translations

mediocre in Italian is mediocre
mediocre in Latin is mediocris
mediocre in Spanish is mediocre, mediano

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