Complacency Quotes

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So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,… — Ralph Ellison
Itâ€™s rather a strong check to oneâ€™s self-complacency to find how much of oneâ€™s right doing depends on not being in want of money. — George Eliot
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought… — John Stott
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the… — Francis Fukuyama
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such… — Howard Zinn
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous... — J. Michael Straczynski
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency. — Baruch Spinoza
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful. — Tom Hollander
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our… — Benjamin E. Mays
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. — Tony McCoy
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system,… — Ben Shapiro
Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being… — Francis Spufford
Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human… — Henry Petroski
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a… — James Howard Kunstler
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. — Timothy White
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. — Vladimir Nabokov
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford… — Kevin Rudd
Of all the possible avenues of life there are to live for, complacency should be viewed as the switch that killed the will to build. — Gillis Triplett
Dont let complacency becomes complicity. — Tasneem Hameed
A responsible person has stable mindset and directs his energies for self-development Day by day he continues to improve.He is never lulled into complacency. — DrAnil Kr Sinha

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