Complacency Quotes · Page 6

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

— Raoul Peck

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

— Jim George

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

— Paul Ryan

“I’ve long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.”

— Tom Robbins

Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency.

— Sean Dyche

“No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency”

— Mark Frost

“Let yourself be the enemy of comfort. Let yourself be the enemy of complacency always.”

— Nick Oliveri

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a…

— Wallace Stevens

Majority are those who get hot when the constant stream rays of knowledge shines to them, but very few, those who do…

— Pascals Einstein

People care when service is sluggish and comes from an arrogance and complacency that often besets those who know they can never…

— Barkha Dutt

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want…

— George Eliot

School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds,…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

“To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but…

— Benjamin E. Mays

I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I…

— Juliette Lewis

I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they…

— Thorstein Veblen

“Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding…

— Lama Surya Das

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks.…

— Anonymous

“The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate.…

— Anonymous

Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really…

— Henry Petroski

“You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I…

— Robert Fanney

I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.

— Paul Millsap

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

— Paul Ryan

“Complacency is a fool’s weakness, diligence is a warrior’s strength.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

— Rod Steiger

Complacency is not an option when so many of our citizens are struggling to make ends meet.

— John Bel Edwards

“Fear not the might of the oppressor, but rather, complacency in the hearts of the oppressed.”

— Isiah Strong

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

— Nigel Kennedy

“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

— Mao Zedong

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

— John Fairclough

“Escape the repetitive whirl wind that life can become through complacency.”

— Steven Redhead

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

— Og Mandino

Complacency is a creeping danger. Unless wisdom sets in, you will never come to your senses.

— Jey Lopez

“When we get too comfortable in our routine we stop challenging ourselves. Complacency is the silent dream killer.”

— Nina Guilbeau

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the…

— Tony McCoy