Complacent Quotes

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.

I think Democrats are complacent. They think that Russia is going to save us. Bob Mueller is going to come in with a report.

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

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

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

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

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

The dream is over only when you have become complacent.

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.

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

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

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

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.

Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence!

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!

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

Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.