Complacency Quotes · Page 5

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

— Donella Meadows

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

— William Congreve

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

— Bill Johnson

“complacency has its charms, but none worth trading for the fulfillment of realizing their potential.”

— Angela Duckworth

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

— C. D. Darlington

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

— Vincent Massey

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

— Carl Deuker

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Juliette Lewis

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

— Edgard Varese

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

Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not…

— Julian Simon

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on…

— Sidney Blumenthal

Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need…

— Ban Ki-moon

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging…

— Francis Fukuyama

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

— Allan Boesak

It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in…

— Georges Bataille

Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of…

— Vera Nazarian

The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence…

— Jerry Brown

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the…

— Ralph Ellison

But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because…

— Katie Davis

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from…

— Hugh Evans

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best…

— Meryl Streep

Self-complacency leads to self-righteousness. Let us realize that we are all sinners, and ask God for forgiveness.

— Anonymous

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

— Joe Kinnear

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

— Jack Nicklaus

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

— Tom Brown, Jr

“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted”

— George Keller

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

— John C. Maxwell

“Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.”

— Ursula Tillmann

Through cowardice and complacency, we have stood by while the ordinary dream of owning a home has turned into a nightmare.

— Nick Boles

“Complacency and endless ambition are easy. It takes hard work to find the midpoint between these two states.”

— FastReads

“Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

— J. Michael Straczynski

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

— Natalie Angier

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

— Vladimir Nabokov

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

— Cal Thomas

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

— Francis Chan

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

— Rand Paul