"Average" is what the failures claim when their family and friends ask them why they are not more successful.
"Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst; the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?
"Average" means being run-of-the-mill, mediocre, insignificant, and also-ran, a nonentity.
Being "Average" is the lazy person's cop-out; it's lacking the guts to take a stand in life; it's living by default.
Being "Average" is to take up space for no purpose; to take the trip through life, but never to pay the fare; to return no interest for God's investment in you.
Being "Average" is to pass one's life away with time, rather than to pass one's time away with life. It's to kill time, rather than work it to death.
To be "Average" is to be forgotten once you pass from this life. The successful are remembered for their contributions, the failures are remembered because they tried, but the "Average", the silent majority, is just forgotten.
To be "Average" is to commit the greatest crime one can against one's self, humanity, and one's God. The saddest epitaph is this: "Here lies Mr. or Ms. Average - here lies the remains of what might have been, except for their belief that they were only 'Average'."
- Edmund Gaudet
time. Sooner or later the other guy is
going to want to eat, drink, sleep, get
laid, go on vacation or go to the
bathroom. And that's when I catch up.
- Jay Leno
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: When the sun comes up you better be running.
- taken from Fred Kohnke
To laugh is - to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is - to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is - to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is - to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your DREAMS before the crowd is - to risk their loss.
To love is - to risk dying.
To hope is - to risk despair.
To try is - to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love -- live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he has forefeited freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.