Complacency Quotations

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

This is the complacency I have run into.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

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 and behavior.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

The enemy of stability can be complacency

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

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 self-respect.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.

The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.