Complacency Quotes

193 quotes by 174 authors

I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human… — Mary Robinson
The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does… — Kofi Annan
The enemy of stability can be complacency — Ross Brawn
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. — David Myers
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.Â The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.Â What a shock to… — Joel Beeke
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was… — Hugh Laurie
When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's… — Chris Jericho
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had… — Hannah Arendt
Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws… — Ban Ki-moon
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless… — Samuel J. Tilden
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. — Walter Benjamin
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh
I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through… — Zachary Quinto
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from… — Noah Levine
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;… — Laozi
Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they… — Patricia Hewitt

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