Complacency Quotes - Page 3

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

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.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

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.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

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

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.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

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

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

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

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.

The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

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

This is the complacency I have run into.

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.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

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

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

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.

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

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

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