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
“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
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
“I’ve long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
There is that feeling of complacency that can set in when you're having early success or you've won four games in a… — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
“Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change.… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because… — Richard E. Besser 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
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel… — Edward de Bono 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
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
