“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” — George Bernard Shaw

“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.” — Paul Gauguin

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.” — Max Beerbohm

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

“Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people” — Joseph Joubert