Settling for Less Quotes

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Better is the enemy of good.

I don't want to sacrifice and be a backup to be a Charger. That's not something I want to do or I'm going to do.

He [Theodore Roosevelt] acted upon the maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. I believe that half a loaf is fatal whenever it is accepted at the sacrifice of the basic principle sought to be attained.... A half-way measure never fairly tests the principle and many utterly discredit it.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

If a state can't be first, it better be big.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

Anything for a quiet life.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

We are far too easily pleased.

I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn't lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn't really motivated to this.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.

Good is the enemy of great.