Complacency Quotes

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.

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.

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.

It's always good to be underestimated.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Peace is first of all the art of being.

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

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

The enemy of stability can be complacency

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.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

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.

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

When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net worth, think opportunistically about all those bargains - and the potential gains when, inevitably, a bull market returns.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

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

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.