Complacency Quotes

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

— Bonnie Hammer

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

— Jeremy Gutsche

“To move forward, one need only take the first step,”

— Chase Neill

“LATENT TALENT Anagram of complacency Kamil Ali”

— Kamil Ali

“Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.”

— D.J. Molles

Complacency is the enemy of study.

— Mao Zedong

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

— Solomon Schechter

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

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Aaron Mooy

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Don Meyer

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

— John Mackey

“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

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

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open,…

— Pico Iyer

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

— Wynton Marsalis

“He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an…

— Maugham W. Somerset (William Somerset

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

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

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

Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net…

— James Stewart

“Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

— Anonymous

I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“Fan would have expected that one or two of the Girls would have long rebelled at spending a life in a room,…

— Chang-rae Lee

“No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything." "You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children." "Stop…

— Alfred Bester

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility…

— James McCosh

Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much…

— Saint Francis de Sales

As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the…

— Allen W. Wood

“It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal…

— J.M. Coetzee

It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less…

— Betty Eadie

It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success…

— Samuel J. Tilden