Quotes About Complacency

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

They who have nothing to trouble them will be troubled at nothing.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

When you're just in there with the same guys on a regular basis, I think there's a chance to become a little - I don't want to say lazy, but I'll say complacent. So to get a chance to go in there and mix it up with these other guys is exciting.

You never want to be too comfortable because that's when you start to get complacent and start doing those little stupid things and getting too relaxed.

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted.

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

I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.

It was a town that bred complacency through cable TV and a convenience store.

I guess I was getting blasé about windwhale-riding.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. He's done nothing for so long that nothing is all he can do.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

A lot of people, once they become champion, they relax, kind of sit in the position and try to enjoy it. But I feel like everything I've ever worked for could be lost at any moment. I work harder and harder and harder, because I want to be farther ahead with every fight, and not worrying about these girls catching up to me.

If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.

Lord, we know that you will come again in glory to raise the living and the dead. Resurrect us now from the death of comfort, complacency, sloth, and shallowness that we might witness to your love in life and death. Amen.

The Scriptures say that we should not fear those things which can destroy the body, but we are to fear that which can destroy the soul (Matt. 10:28). While the ghettos may have their share of violence and crime, the suburbs are the home of the more subtle demonic forces—numbness, complacency, comfort—and it is these that can eat away at our souls.

While the ghettos may have their share of violence and crime, the posh suburbs are home to more subtle demonic forces--numbness, complacency and comfort. These are the powers that can eat away at our souls.

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.