Complacency is self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies. Profoundly inspirational complacency quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous Complacency Quotes
Familiarity breeds complacency. – Rick Warren
Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities in the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. – William Hazlitt
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. – Timothy White
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. – Ellen Terry
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. – Benjamin E. Mays
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. – Andy Grove
I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy. – Trent Reznor
The biggest mistake to me is complacency. – Bonnie Hammer
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self – satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. – Hugh Laurie
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. – Jimmy Carter
I didn’t want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It’s easy to do. It’s easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it’s been a good motivator for me to work a little harder. – Webb Simpson
Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as they are. The second is rejection of things it as they might be. Good enough becomes days today’s watchword and tomorrow standard. – Alex and Brett Harris
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. – Franz Kafka
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. – Nigel Kennedy
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. – Alison Jackson
Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he’ll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap. – Alex and Brett Harris
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition, the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs. – Martin Filler
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain. – A.W. Tozer
You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don’t, if you walk out onstage complacent, that’s not a good thing. – Joan Jett
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. – Nancy Pearcey
If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we’re complicit. – Shelley Morrison
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Do not be afraid to make decisions; do not be afraid to make mistakes. – Carly Fiorina
We cannot be complacent with playing good but not winning games. – Marty Schottenheimer
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent. – Tucker Carlson
You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. – Venus Williams
Conceit is the finest armor a man can wear. – Jerome K. Jerome
A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser. – Darryl Sutter
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. – B. H. Liddell Hart
Change before you have to. – Jack Welch
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present. – Thomas Edison
We can all get complacent. Especially when it comes to a job. – John Rampton
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds, a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. – Albert Camus
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. – Johnny Unitas
Complacency doesn’t make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal. – John Fairclough
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul. – Plato
Complacency is the enemy of study. – Mao Zedong
Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight. – Jack Nicklaus
The complacent, the self – indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. – John F. Kennedy
We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. – Robin Sharma
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from. – Bear Grylls
Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier! – Israelmore Ayivor
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless but impairs what it would improve. – Alexander Pope
Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney. – Sonia Rumzi
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth, don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. – Aesop
Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily. – Jim George
