Complacency Quotes

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

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

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

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

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

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

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

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

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

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

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

If we get used to life that is the crime.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

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

Hate is only conquered by love.

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.

We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

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

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

The dream is over only when you have become complacent.

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

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

Don’t be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you’ve been.

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency

I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

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

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.

A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.

An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.

for me, to say I yet to begin gives me reasons not to look back and see what I have done but, to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do