Complacency Quotes

193 quotes by 173 authors

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call… — Thorstein Veblen
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In… — James Chanos
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of… — Steve Jobs
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey
Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance. — Solomon Schechter
Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which… — Glenn R. Schiraldi
Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure. — Georges St-Pierre
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in… — E. Digby Baltzell
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. — Andy Grove
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it. — Mason Cooley
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus… — Hugh Evans
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes. — Carly Fiorina
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. — John Hawkes
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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