Quotes About Complacency

#1. Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

David Myers

#2. I think that one of the biggest flaws of
mankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

Daniel Willey

#3. You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

Jeremy Gutsche

#5. Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven ... My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.

Julian Simon

#6. Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other's lives. We call this phenomenon
'growing apart'.

Steve Maraboli

#7. Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

Solomon Schechter

#8. Success Should Never Breed Complacency

Xenophon

#9. If we get used to life that is the crime ...

Jean Garrigue

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

Edmund Crispin

#11. Queers can't destroy science fiction. No one can. No one can destroy the future. But we can, through malice or complacency or inattention, limit the future.

Sigrid Ellis

#12. Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

Sonia Rumzi

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

Nigel Kennedy

#14. Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

Andrew S. Grove

#16. It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.

Amitav Ghosh

#17. As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of established religion - but the intelligent quest of the unknowing, in humility and with a clarity of mind

Andrew Ashdown

#19. 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

#20. Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Dan Rather

#21. Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#22. Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

Lennox Lewis

#23. It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

John Mackey

#24. On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

Kevin Rudd

#25. I never saw it coming; I never thought you'd leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

Lorii Myers

#26. It has been said that from war comes exhaustion, from exhaustion comes peace, from peace comes cooperation, from cooperation comes prosperity, from prosperity comes complacency, from complacency comes inequity, from inequity comes war.

Richard L. Muehlberg

#27. Complacency and ignorance," Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. "A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion." "But

Anne McCaffrey

#28. Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

Max Anders

#29. The love of God should electrify us, push us to hunger, and stir a fiery passion in our bones that cannot be quenched. Consistent lack of emotion in our spiritual walk can often be defined in one simple word: complacency.

John Crowder

#30. I've felt sometimes like I'd be less trouble if I'd just sit back and be quiet. But dreams are too important. We can't just let our dreams dry up and die, because then our hearts would break.

Brittney Ryan

#31. From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

Mark Helprin

#32. There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Thomas Mann

#33. The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

Baba Kalyani

#34. 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

#35. Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.

Esther Perel

#36. As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.

Edmund Clowney

#37. Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Rand Paul

#38. Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Ann Voskamp

#39. Complacency is easy ... and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#40. Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.

Glenn R. Schiraldi

#41. There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

Agnes Repplier

#42. Because of the way society sets them up, women never again experience the need to develop independence - until some crisis in later life explodes their complacency, showing them how sadly helpless and undeveloped they've allowed themselves to be.

Colette Dowling

#43. If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

Leo Tolstoy

#44. We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Caryll Houselander

#45. A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity;
a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#46. Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Tana French

#47. We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#48. Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

Bill Johnson

#49. While the ghettos may have their share of violence and crime, the posh suburbs are home to more subtle demonic forces
numbness, complacency and comfort. These are the powers that can eat away at our souls.

Shane Claiborne

#50. 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

#51. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.

A.W. Tozer

#52. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

#53. It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

#54. There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Marianne Williamson

#55. The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

Alan Hirsch

#56. That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

Alexander MacLaren

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

Bill Maher

#58. Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

Simone De Beauvoir

#59. The people of a city blessed with all the good things nature has can grow smug about who they are, can find complacency in livability polls, as if we did a lot to deserve it.

Robin Cody

#60. when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Ron Chernow

#62. Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency.

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#64. We don't have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency

Sunday Adelaja

#65. It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Simone De Beauvoir

#66. If he was not personally loud, however, he was deep, and during these closing days of the Roman May he knew a complacency that matched with slow irregular walks under the pines of the Villa Borghese, among the small sweet meadow-flowers and the mossy marbles.

Henry James

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

Nick Cave

#68. 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

#69. The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

Douglas Dunn

#70. To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#71. Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Samuel Johnson

#72. If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

Edward Kennedy

#73. Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

Rod Steiger

#74. A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

John P. Kotter

#75. If complacency is bad for business, it can also be bad for the human spirit

Simon Silva

#76. We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Mike Patton

#77. For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Tom Hollander

#78. People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet.

Rick Remender

#79. Pain frees you from complacency.
Tears free you from sorrow.
Weaknesses free you from pride.
Adversity frees from boredom.
Challenges free you from monotony.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#80. 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

#81. Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

Og Mandino

#82. I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Jimmy Carter

#83. Complacency is a slow gas leak, not a bomb blast. Like being robbed by a thief in the night who only steals a penny at a time, we awake to find the days have all gone somewhere. Things

Jon Acuff

#84. As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

George Amos Dorsey

#85. There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

Rand Paul

#86. Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as they are. The second is rejection of things it as they might be. "Good enough" becomes days today's watchword and tomorrow standard.

Alex And Brett Harris

#87. There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Dustin Moskovitz

#88. The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

Richard E. Besser

#89. 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

#90. To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#91. Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie

#92. Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

Kevin DeYoung

#93. There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#94. I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

J. Cole

#95. Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you ... out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

Bobby McFerrin

#96. The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Noah Levine

#97. All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

#98. Don't underestimate the effects of complacency ... cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose.

Erica Goros

#99. I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

Craig Groeschel

#100. God encounters are to occur and continue throughout the life of a believer, constantly bringing each of us into a higher level of spiritual consciousness, constantly sharpening our spiritual senses, constantly challenging our complacency and status quo mentality.

Robin Bertram