Complacency Quotes - Page 2

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

The enemy of stability can be complacency

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

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

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

To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

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

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

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

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

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

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.

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

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.

Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net worth, think opportunistically about all those bargains - and the potential gains when, inevitably, a bull market returns.

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

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.

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.

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

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.