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