"For years I felt that being respectable meant……" — Paul Theroux

More Complacency Quotes

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• No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
• Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -… — Aesop
• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. — Jimmy Carter
• If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. — Nick Cave
• The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not… — Michael Chertoff
• Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the… — Edward de Bono
• I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino
• Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo… — Wallace Stevens
• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His… — Francis of Assisi
• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer
• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new… — Charles Lamb
• From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face… — Mark Helprin

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