Complacency Quotes

“What is needed is for White South Africans to shake themselves out of their complacency, a complacency which I know allows them to accept prevailing standards, to lose sight of the need for change.”

“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”

“The world is sleeping in a drunken stupor, but the church is sleeping in the light.”

“A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it.”

“Apathy is a form of living death.”

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

“The greatest injustice I have seen is not in the camps of Darfur, but in the complacency of the West.”

“Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.”

“If you're not in the parade, you're the pavement.”

“Contentment is a sleepy, idle, and languid thing, which allures us to rest, when we are most in need of labor.”

“The biggest challenge for any company is to keep from getting complacent.”

“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.”

“The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”

“I've always felt that the best security is insecurity.”

“I like to see a team that's hungry. I don't like to see a team that's fat and happy.”

“He who is too well off is always in danger of becoming a fool.”

“I have been struck by the fact that all plain sailing is in old grooves.”

“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”

“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”

“It is with religion as it is with wives: without examining, most men are contented with what they have of their own.”