Complacency Quotes

193 quotes by 174 authors

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success — John P. Kotter
I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training… — Pete Goss
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. — Garry Kasparov
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those… — Ezra Taft Benson
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness. — Pat Riley
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most… — Edward Hirsch
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency. — Simone de Beauvoir
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens,… — Joseph Campbell
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end. — Joseph Campbell
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams
Once you have tasted conviction, you canâ€™t bear to keep swallowing complacency. — Ann Voskamp
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal… — Rick Warren
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. — Lee Kuan Yew
America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If… — Charles M. Vest
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up… — John Dos Passos
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters. — Pope Francis
I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.'… — J. Cole
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. — Kevin Gates
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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