Complacency Quotes

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.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

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.

It's always good to be underestimated.

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

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

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

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds complacency.

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.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

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

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

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

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

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.

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.

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.

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

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

Peace is first of all the art of being.