Complacency quotes
92 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency."
"Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny."
"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."
"Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency."
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"We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present."
"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."
"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."
"Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success."
"Complacency is the enemy of study."
"The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency."
"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency."
"Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love."
"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."
"Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end."
"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."
"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."
"It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency."
"The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency."
"Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer"
"I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said."
"The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them."
"it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck."
"Hate is only conquered by love."
