Quotes About Fighting Complacency

#1. Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Gerald Brenan

#2. Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

Jack Nicklaus

#3. You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

Julien Smith

#4. Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird.

Isaac

#5. If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Give yourself something to work toward
constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

#7. The American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.

Rachel Maddow

#8. There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

Ernst Haeckel

#9. We don't belong anywhere, because we can belong everywhere.

Kirsty Logan

#10. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

Theo Paphitis

#11. Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

Gardner Dozois

#12. Hawaii is still the single most frequent fantasy destination, not because of political stability or conveniences, but because Hawaii seduces the imagination. It's the perfect postcard, no props, no fillers.

Robert Wintner

#13. If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Walter Lippmann

#14. I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

Patricia Schroeder

#15. 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

#16. When we commit our lives to the Lord,
He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson