Best 172 quotes in «complacency quotes» category

Hate is only conquered by love.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

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.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

It's always good to be underestimated.

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

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

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

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.

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

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.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

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

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

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.

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.

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

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 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.