Complacency Quotes · Page 6

Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

— Max Anders

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

— Ann Voskamp

If you don't have competition in a squad, you can have complacency - and, if you have complacency, you won't win.

— Nikita Parris

“Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.”

— Sonia Rumzi

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

— Franz Kafka

“Enough with nonchalance in the name of practicality! Let us now rise as tornado and wipe out all apathy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.”

— Wayde Goodall

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement…

— Alexander MacLaren

We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model…

— Ben Fogle

I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, and my mom had to work so hard…

— Farrah Gray

“It is essential, then, to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if…

— Edward Kennedy

...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity…

— Dave Barry

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.

— Paule Marshall

“Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty…

— H.G. Wells

In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've…

— Barack Obama

That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just…

— Karyn Kusama

“With headlines like "Marry Now or Never," the specter of marriage loomed. It was a constant fear, a threat, a reminder. But…

— Elizabeth Winder

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;…

— Charles Lamb

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be,…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

“We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.”

— Bill Maher

“Perhaps what we most need was a kick in our complacency — to prepare us or what lies ahead.”

— Anonymous

“There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.”

— Richard de Crespigny

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

— John Hawkes

“I think that one of the biggest flaws of mankind is that we become complacent with our lives.”

— Daniel Willey

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

— Gautama Buddha

“My mission is to snap you out of complacency and mediocrity, to help you see that God wants more for you.”

— Kelsey K Thornton

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

— Terry Goodkind

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

— Erica Goros

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

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

— Kevin Gates

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

— Philip Johnson

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

— Lee Kuan Yew

“We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.”

— Colum McCann