“Complacency and endless ambition are easy. It takes hard work to find the midpoint between these two states.” — FastReads Copy Share Image
“Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous... — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity,… — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Life was meant to be a wondrous journey, you trade that ideal for whatever you have because of your complacency, or whenever… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics,… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Just read 66 pages of PerezHilton.com. If I didn't have anal sex on camera for a living, I'd be a total waste… — Asa Akira Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor,… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success… — Samuel J. Tilden Copy Share Image
It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
“It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything." "You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children." "Stop… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“Fan would have expected that one or two of the Girls would have long rebelled at spending a life in a room,… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
