Complacency Quotes

193 quotes by 174 authors

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't. — Samuel Johnson
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? — Philip Johnson
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. — Franz Kafka
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. — Nigel Kennedy
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. — John P. Kotter
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who… — Norman Mailer
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed… — Wynton Marsalis
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. — Joyce Carol Oates
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. — Pat Riley
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game,… — Will Rogers
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. — Eleanor Roosevelt
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. — Paul Ryan
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. — Cal Thomas
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred.… — Donald Trump
Change before you have to. — Jack Welch
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for… — Geoff Mulgan
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. — Donella Meadows
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. — Paul Theroux

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