Complacency Quotes
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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
There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential.
— Dionna L. Hayden
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
— Nick Cave
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
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
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
Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name.""I dare say. But very few people use their middle names. — Edmund Crispin
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
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
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
Are destroyed by their own complacency.
— Anonymous
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
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
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 ofmankind 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
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.
Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
— Charles Koch
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
Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.
— Solomon Schechter
A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity;a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
