quotes about Complacency
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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.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
-- Alan Hirsch -
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.
-- Alice JamesSource : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
-- C. D. Darlington -
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.
-- Caryll HouselanderSource : Caryll Houselander (1945). “The Flowering Tree”
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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.
-- Chris Jericho -
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Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
-- Chuck Grassley -
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
-- David Myers -
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
-- Diane Ravitch -
To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.
-- Dorothee Solle -
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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 high places.
-- E. Digby Baltzell -
Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.
-- Frances G. Wickes -
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
-- Franz Kafka -
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
-- Gloria E. Anzaldúa -
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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
-- Helen Keller -
Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.
-- Jack Nicklaus -
We have only two modes - complacency and panic.
-- James R. Schlesinger -
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If we get used to life that is the crime ...
-- Jean GarrigueSource : Jean Garrigue (1953). “The Monument Rose: Poems”
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Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.
-- Jeremy GutscheSource : Jeremy Gutsche (2009). “Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change”, Gotham
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
-- Jimmy Carter -
Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.
-- John C. Maxwell -
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
-- John Hawkes -
Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success
-- John P. Kotter -
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. KotterSource : John P. Kotter (2013). “Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author”, p.130, Harvard Business Press
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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.
-- John StottSource : "John Stott: 10 Memorable Quotes" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. July 28, 2011.
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Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
-- Joseph Addison -
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.
-- Joseph Grew -
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.
-- Kevin Gates -
Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
-- Lennox LewisSource : Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. February 16, 2012.
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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.
-- Mark Foley -
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.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
-- Pat Riley -
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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.
-- Patricia Hewitt -
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...
-- Paule MarshallSource : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.90, Feminist Press at CUNY
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An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies -
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.
-- Pope Francis -
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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.
-- Rand Paul -
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer
-- Rand Paul -
The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.
-- Robert Quillen -
My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
-- Samuel JohnsonSource : Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 May 1783)
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Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.
-- Solomon Schechter -
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.
-- Thorstein Veblen -
Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.
-- Tom Brown, Jr. -
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
-- Tom Hollander -
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I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
-- Trent Reznor -
Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.
-- John Fairclough -
Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of otherness, confusion, isolation, watchfulness, longing. One becomes keenly aware of the impersonality of brute matter, but at the same time there is often a raw, mistrustful desire for gentleness, connection.
-- Laurie SheckSource : Source: therumpus.net
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The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.
-- Malcolm Goodwin -
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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.
-- Alison JacksonSource : "What I see in the mirror" by Alison Jackson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.
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Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.
-- Bill Johnson -
Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.
-- Carl DeukerSource : Source: www.sjboysread.org
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Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.
-- Rod Steiger -