Best 172 quotes in «complacency quotes» category

It's always good to be underestimated.

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

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

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.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

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.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

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.

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

Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of fantasy to be not Tolkienesque consolation but subversion - a kind of rebe Ûllion from complacency. Yes, I can see what is meant here. And I also see the need to change, to fix, to drastically improve the human lot.

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.

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

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

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.

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

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.

The enemy of stability can be complacency

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

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

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

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

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

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.

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.

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.

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.

The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

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

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

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

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.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.