Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

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.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.