Plato Quotes

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

Anyone can make things that are beautiful; we need to make things that are remarkable.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

I'm not trying to be average.

I don't go for average.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

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.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.