“Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.” — Ursula Tillmann Copy Share Image
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character. — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness. — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
“Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
“And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“With headlines like "Marry Now or Never," the specter of marriage loomed. It was a constant fear, a threat, a reminder. But… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“complacency has its charms, but none worth trading for the fulfillment of realizing their potential.” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
