“The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.”
“The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort.”
“Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
“It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.”
“There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.”
“Mediocrity always attacks excellence”