Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. — David Myers Copy Share Image
“Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.” — Alex and Brett Harris Copy Share Image
Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency. — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
“No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
“Let yourself be the enemy of comfort. Let yourself be the enemy of complacency always.” — Nick Oliveri Copy Share Image
I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent. — Paul Millsap Copy Share Image
Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity,… — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Just read 66 pages of PerezHilton.com. If I didn't have anal sex on camera for a living, I'd be a total waste… — Asa Akira Copy Share Image
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. — Pat Riley 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
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
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for… — Colin Powell 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
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
“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
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Complacency is not an option when so many of our citizens are struggling to make ends meet. — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
“Fear not the might of the oppressor, but rather, complacency in the hearts of the oppressed.” — Isiah Strong Copy Share Image
“Complacency is a fool’s weakness, diligence is a warrior’s strength.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“Escape the repetitive whirl wind that life can become through complacency.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal. — John Fairclough 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
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
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
Somehow, AI is playing an important role of breaking up the ice of complacency. We have a comfortable life, we just don't… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious… — Joseph Grew Copy Share Image
