Top 315 Complacent Quotes & Sayings

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

The last thing I want to do is be complacent.

If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.

I had some downtime with my career and... I got complacent.

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.

It is important we don't become complacent, do our job and stay professional.

That's the thing, never get complacent.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

I believe if you become complacent about your work, it leads to a downfall.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

I never get complacent with anything.

We can all get complacent. Especially when it comes to a job.

As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

I think that a lot of people forget they're in WWE and get complacent.

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

I don't have a complacent dressing room, thank goodness.

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 can't be complacent and have to be aggressive. Sometimes I can be too nonchalant in a game.

I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

I've never been the type of person to stick with the same thing or be complacent or rest on my laurels.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.

I don't want to be complacent.

I don't want to be complacent, ever.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

I had some downtime with my career and I got complacent.

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

I'm confident, but I don't think I've ever been complacent.

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

Repetition every day. That's something the great ones do is never get complacent.

The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

We can't have the mindset of becoming complacent with losing.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.