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Quotes About Complacency

I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.
~ Lisa See
These consecrated ones, by their lifestyles and anointings, shook people out of their complacency and confronted the religious status quo with a burning zeal for the name and fame of God.
~ Lou Engle
The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
~ Andy Grove
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
~ Og Mandino
Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.
~ Hyman Minsky
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
~ David Myers
Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
~ Charles Koch
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
Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success
~ John P. Kotter
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
~ Thomas J. Watson
Success has killed more men than bullets.
~ Texas Guinan
Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
~ Brian Tracy
A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
~ Barack Obama
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
~ Colin Wilson
Having destroyed an aristocratic society, we seem ready to go on living complacently amid the rubble forever.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
He had reached a dead end. He had been content to drift from moment to moment of existence for thirty years like some heavily armored creature, sluggish and indifferent.
~ Alfred Bester
Like I said...fine with me.
~ Alice Walker
Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.
~ Amanda Craig
The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,
~ Joe Abercrombie