Top 291 Complacency Quotes & Sayings

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

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

This is the complacency I have run into.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

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

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

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

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

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

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard to tell how persistent it is. What causes really big bear markets is not just when people are overly complacent - it's when that complacency is sticky. As long as the skepticism can refresh itself, I think that the markets are still quite viable.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

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

I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

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

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

We must take every game as serious as we can, no complacency, that's the main thing.

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

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

If you don't have competition in a squad, you can have complacency - and, if you have complacency, you won't win.

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

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

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency.

Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

The enemy of stability can be complacency

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

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

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