Complacency Quotes · Page 7

We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

— James Mattis

We are the best the show, others weak hold. Just to get complacency / which does not

— Mak_786

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

— Bill Walsh

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records. ”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

— Trent Reznor

“Run. Run. Run. You can neither succeed standing idly out of fear nor grow walking leisurely out of complacency.”

— Abiodun Fijabi

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

— Edgard Varese

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire…

— H.G. Wells

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel…

— Ben Shapiro

I don't think the state will allow people to occupy a particular space unless it feels that allowing that will end up…

— Arundhati Roy

“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

— Frederick Lenz

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of…

— Wynton Marsalis

It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And…

— Vera Nazarian

We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain…

— John Holdren

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will…

— Steve Jobs

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a…

— Laurie Sheck

Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence,…

— Glenn R. Schiraldi

While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA,…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of…

— Anonymous

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

— John P. Kotter

“Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.”

— Andrew S. Grove

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

— Kevin DeYoung

“Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.”

— Alex and Brett Harris

“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.”

— Mishi McCoy

“It is up to all of us to fight our unrelenting enemies—complacency, overconfidence and conceit.”

— Alan C. Greenberg

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

— Sandeep Singh

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

— David Myers

“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.”

— Alain de Botton

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

— Elijah Wood

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Diane Ravitch

“Don't underestimate the effects of complacency … cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose.”

— Erica Goros

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

— Philip Johnson

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

— Kevin Gates

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

— Tom Hollander