Complacency Quotes
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.
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.
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.
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.
I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
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.
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
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.
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.
You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
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.
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
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.
Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."
