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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Mediocrity.
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
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
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
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
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
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.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
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
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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