Complacency Quotes
193 quotes by 174 authors
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
— Francis of Assisi
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed…
— Aesop
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
— Jimmy Carter
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
— Nick Cave
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or…
— Michael Chertoff
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Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor…
— Edward de Bono
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
— Og Mandino
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to…
— Wallace Stevens
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Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins.…
— Francis of Assisi
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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
— Don Meyer
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of…
— Charles Lamb
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It…
— Mark Helprin
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its…
— John Stott
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The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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We have only two modes - complacency and panic.
— James R. Schlesinger
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On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in…
— Sidney Blumenthal
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To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in…
— Sarah Ellis
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The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.
— Joe Kinnear
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Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.
— Jack Nicklaus
Who Wrote These Complacency Quotes
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