100 Complacency Quotes
Following is our list of complacency quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about spiritual complacency.
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Famous Complacency Quotes
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong
Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight. — Jack Nicklaus
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul — Plato
The biggest mistake to me is complacency. — Bonnie Hammer
Arrogance breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. — Andrew Tate
Comfortable surroundings can lull us into a false sense of security. — Michael Easter
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves. — Teresa of Avila
The pursuit of comfort has made us complacent and stagnant. — Michael Easter
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. — Jimmy Carter
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. — Elbert Hubbard
Contentment is natural wealth. — Socrates
Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list. — John C. Maxwell
I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent. — Tommy Hilfiger
Short Complacency Quotes
- If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. — Kevin Gates
- Never get complacent. Nothing lasts forever. Constantly be in recreation mode! — Patrick Bet-David
- He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller
- If you’ve never been lazy and done things the easy way, you’re probably not that smart. — Ryan Higa
- I had some downtime with my career and I got complacent. — Jake Busey
- I know I will never let myself be complacent in life. — Misty Copeland
- At some point in the relationship, you are going to become complacent. It happens to all of us. — Corey Wayne
- The single thing I’m most worried about for FTX is that we become slow and dysfunctional. — Sam Bankman-Fried
- Familiarity breeds complacency. — Rick Warren
- When you have a big lead, you relax and don’t concentrate as much. — Stephen Hendry
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No Complacency Quotes
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money. — Unknown Author
I always always always want to be improving my content. No matter how big the videos get, I want to go bigger. The pacing, idea, editing, scenes, jokes, execution, etc. can always be better and I'll never get complacent. — MrBeast
You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent. — Viswanathan Anand
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. — James Thurber
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present. — Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. — Lucille Roybal-Allard
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. — Aesop
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. — Anne Lamott
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Spiritual Complacency Quotes
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth. — Rich Mullins
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha. — Noah Levine
Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is nothing spiritual about complacency. — Marianne Williamson
Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency. — Max Anders
One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency. — Frederick Lenz
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency. — Alan Hirsch
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. — John Stott
Success Complacency Quotes
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. — W. Somerset Maugham
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino
Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency. — Lennox Lewis
Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure. — Og Mandino
I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had. — Jason Derulo
I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening. — J. Cole
Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful. — Donald Trump
A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy. — Barack Obama
Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success. — Brian Tracy
I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder. — Webb Simpson
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More Complacency Quotes
It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions. — Paul Bocuse
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy. — Benjamin E. Mays
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. — Mark Twain
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. — John F. Kennedy
I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously. — Nicola Sturgeon
Mom used to quote Isaiah 64: about waiting on the Lord. It doesn't mean being complacent. It means understanding that he has a plan, and that we're not the ones in control. In the meantime, we need to strive to use our gifts and abilities fully. — Tim Tebow
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. — Colin Powell
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive. — John F. Kennedy
We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency... — Paul Ryan
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. — Thabo Mbeki
It’s when we feel too good that we run the risk of becoming overconfident, intellectually complacent, and set in our ways. It’s exactly when we think we have life all figured out that we end up losing our way. — Tim Urban
Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect. — John P. Kotter
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. — Charles Krauthammer
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus. — Seth Godin
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. — Hunter S. Thompson
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results. — Colin Blakemore
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. — Jeremy Renner
If people are complaining about something, it means the product is good enough that they care about it. — Cliff Lerner
America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency. — Charles M. Vest
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times. — Norman Bethune
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