- The main thing is, you must set your sights upon the heights, don't be a mediocrity.
- Mediocrity?
- That's right.
— Merlin (Karl Swenson)
10 seconds sound clip from the The Sword in the Stone (1963) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:31:41.623 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Fro.
- Fro?
- To and fro, stop and go. That's what makes the world go round. In and out, thin and stout...
- Merlin? Merlin? I swallowed a bug.
- Oh. What's wrong with that? After all, boy, you are a fish. Instincts, you know.
- But you said I had no instinct.
- Well, that's neither here nor there.
- The main thing is, you must set your sights upon the heights, don't be a mediocrity.
- Don't just wait and trust to fate and say that's how it's meant to be.
- It's up to you how far you go, if you don't try, you'll never know.
- And so, my lad, as I've explained, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Let's swim through that tall grass again. It tickles.
[...]