Complacency Quotes

Complacency Quote of the day

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

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

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

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.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

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

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

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

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

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

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

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

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

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

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

Familiarity breeds complacency.

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

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

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

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.

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

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

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

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

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

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

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

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.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.