One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, w

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Mediocrity
category

Little things affect little minds. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Mediocrity

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. – John Ruskin

Category:
Mediocrity

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. – Joseph Heller

Category:
Mediocrity

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Mediocrity

Random Quotes

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Camping

In Canada, womens rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality – not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others. – Paul Martin

Category:
Equality

Im a father. It isnt just my life any more. I dont want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed. – Billie Joe Armstrong

Category:
dad

All of us gave it all weve got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. Were just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams. – Carrie Underwood

Category:
Dreams