Quotes About Complacency

He remarked that each of us was barred from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each individual; and that the most impregnable of my barriers was the drive to disguise my complacency as independence.

His eyes gave off an air of bravado and arrogance, of disdain and sugary politeness. Julián smiled at him openly, reading insecurity, fear, and emptiness under that shell of vanity and complacency.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The man who is able to hate strongly and with a quiet conscience is one who is complacently blind to all unworthiness in himself and serenely capable of seeing all his own wrongs in someone else.

Hence is it clear that genuine contemplation is incompatible with complacency and with smug acceptance of prejudiced opinions. It is not mere passive acquiescence in the status quo, as some would like to believe—for this would reduce it to the level of spiritual anesthesia. Contemplation is no pain-killer. What a holocaust takes place in this steady burning to ashes of old worn-out words, clichés, slogans, rationalizations! The

9. Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

the complacency of assured social position dulled the incentives necessary for the arduous task of developing native talents to the fullest.

The choice he was forced to make between faith and complacency is one that faces all Americans, not for the duration of a war but for the duration of our democracy.

Living among towers can tempt you into complacency.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

What I hate most is the majority that rests in comfort upon its mediocre accomplishments.

We're headed the right way, but we cannot rest. We're a people whose energy and drive have fueled our rise to greatness. And we're a forward-looking nation--generous, yes, but ambitious, not for ourselves but for the world. Complacency is not in our character--not before, not now, not ever.

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

Because it's indicative of a tired mind-set. It's nothing more than mental jerking off: puffed-up officials trying to make order out of random acts when all around them their world is about to explode—but they just don't know it, or care. It's like trying to find the fly shit in the pepper. I mean, who cares?

El gran peligro de la mediocridad es que es soportable.

el verdadero enemigo del éxito no es el fracaso, como muchas veces pensamos, sino el conformismo.

lo molesta lo suficiente como para quejarse, pero no lo suficiente como para moverse.

The seductive comforts of success, though, can lull us into accepting the status quo.

The temptation is strong to remain in the Zone of Excellence; it's where your own addiction to comfort wants you to stay.