Complacency Quotes · Page 5

“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Brian Tracy

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

— Donella Meadows

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

We must take every game as serious as we can, no complacency, that's the main thing.

— Aaron Mooy

Of all the possible avenues of life there are to live for, complacency should be viewed as the switch that killed the…

— Gillis Triplett

At any level I'm not built with complacency. I think you see that in the way I play. The people that manage…

— Adam Lallana

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station…

— Anonymous

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the…

— Patricia Hewitt

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take…

— Leo Tolstoy

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in…

— Dee Rees

“Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently…

— George will

The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not…

— Benjamin E. Mays

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be,…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical…

— Edward Abbey

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events,…

— William Godwin

“Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that…

— Jane Austen

I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard…

— John Manley

I think the sign of complacency in the stock market is when people don't worry. At the moment, everyone worries about everything.…

— Martin Gilbert

Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that…

— John P. Kotter

“Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction…

— Alex and Brett Harris

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

— Nick Cave

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

— Helen Keller

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

— Og Mandino

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

— John Mackey

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

— Don Meyer

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Thomas A. Edison

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

— Jimmy Carter

“I don't behave, I just stand, and how I stand sets the standard.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.”

— Dan Brown

... a relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

— Barack Obama

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

— Timothy White

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

— Pat Riley

“from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority.”

— Lao Tzu

There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.

— Urjit Patel

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

— Israelmore Ayivor