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Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth. — Tom Brown Jr.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency. — Malcolm Goodwin

Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity. — Kim Holden

We don't have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency — Sunday Adelaja

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ... — J. Michael Straczynski

The Spirit wants to make you threatening to all the forces of injustice and apathy and complacency that keep our world from flourishing. — John Ortberg

There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential. — Dionna L. Hayden

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. — Timothy White

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness. — Pat Riley

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. — Nick Cave

I celebrate art that shakes complacency by the shoulders and shouts, 'Wake up! — Wally Lamb

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. — Chuck Grassley

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected. — Bill Maher

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong

Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters. — Pope Francis

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. — Alain De Botton

There is nothing spiritual about complacency. — Marianne Williamson

Complacency KILLS! — Kelvin J. Knight

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Achieving success is hard; staying successful is even harder. — Frank Sonnenberg

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty. — W. Somerset Maugham

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. — Mike Patton

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy. — C.S. Lewis

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. — A.W. Tozer

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list. — John C. Maxwell

There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore. — F Scott Fitzgerald

From self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority. — Lao-Tzu

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily. — Jim George

Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name."
"I dare say. But very few people use their middle names. — Edmund Crispin

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza

Complacency is the enemy of study. — Mao Zedong

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall. — Jeremy Gutsche

Success Should Never Breed Complacency — Xenophon

The enemy of stability can be complacency — Ross Brawn

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. — Franz Grillparzer

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency. — Natalie Angier

What magic there is in a girl's smile! It is the raisin which, dropped in the yeast of male complacency, induces fermentation. — P.G. Wodehouse

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Change can be your friend;
complacency is always your enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Complacency is the prologue to calamity. — C.D. Reiss

He told me that I hadn't done anything yet. Hadn't lived yet. All you do is pass the time, he said. — Don DeLillo

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny. — Bill Johnson

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. — Franz Kafka

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long. — Israelmore Ayivor

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal. — John Fairclough

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. — Paul Theroux

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. — Pat Conroy

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. — Diane Ravitch

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency. — Alan Hirsch

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. — Garry Kasparov

There are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary — Jane Austen

Are destroyed by their own complacency. — Anonymous

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit. — Peter Thiel

Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don't underestimate the effects of complacency ... cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose. — Erica Goros

Sometimes the enemy is not competition, but rather the comfort of repetition and complacency. — Anonymous

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with. — George F. Will

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency. — John Mackey

Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records. — Israelmore Ayivor

Keys were hardly known for their complacency, — Patrick Rothfuss

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. — Rod Steiger

Laziness and complacency. — Lee Child

The worst monsters are the ones that don't look like monsters, because they fool you into complacency with their beauty. — Whitney Bianca

I think that one of the biggest flaws of
mankind is that we become complacent with our lives. — Daniel Willey

This is the complacency I have run into. — Bob Higgins

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. — Nigel Kennedy

We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles. — Albert Camus

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. — Tony McCoy

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. — John Hawkes

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. — Pat Riley

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility. — Charles Koch

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. — George Eliot

Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency. — Ann Voskamp

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance. — Solomon Schechter

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful. — Andrew S. Grove

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. — Dan Rather

A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity;
a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms. — Colin Powell

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight. — Jack Nicklaus

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy. — Barack Obama

It is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. — Simone De Beauvoir

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives. — Francis Chan

Comfort leads to complacency, and complacency kills. For this reason, I believe that we all should be a little uncoomfortable in our jobs. — Stephen R. Lorenz

If we get used to life that is the crime ... — Jean Garrigue

Complacency is easy ... and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency. — Bonnie Hammer

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted — George Keller

There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance. — Richard De Crespigny

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency. — Joe Kinnear

Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency. — Israelmore Ayivor

overreliance bred complacency. I — Tarah Benner

can a man with those dull eyes, with that self-satisfied complacency, feel anything?" "I — Anton Chekhov

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger. — Carl Deuker