Complacency Quotes · Page 7

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

— Tom Hollander

I fear the spread of complacency as much as the spread of Covid.

— Miguel Cardona

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

— Chuck Grassley

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

— Lennox Lewis

“Complacency is the enemy, and getting started is as triumphant as crossing the finish line.”

— Chip Gaines

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

— Mak_786

Complacency is a creeping danger. Unless wisdom sets in, you will never come to your senses.

— Jey Lopez

“When we get too comfortable in our routine we stop challenging ourselves. Complacency is the silent dream killer.”

— Nina Guilbeau

“Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Of all the possible avenues of life there are to live for, complacency should be viewed as the switch that killed the…

— Gillis Triplett

At any level I'm not built with complacency. I think you see that in the way I play. The people that manage…

— Adam Lallana

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and…

— Adrienne Rich

Life was meant to be a wondrous journey, you trade that ideal for whatever you have because of your complacency, or whenever…

— Steven Redhead

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics,…

— David Frum

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's…

— Annie Lennox

If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor,…

— Campbell Scott

Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot…

— Ezra Taft Benson

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little…

— Stephen King

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

— Og Mandino

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the…

— Tony McCoy

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

— James Mattis

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

— Andrew S. Grove

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

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

— John P. Kotter

“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

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

— Elijah Wood

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

— Alain de Botton