Quotes About Complacency

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

I think that I've been living on my laurels.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'

When people are successful, they usually become lazy.

The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.

These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift.

Frustration is oftentimes a wonderful alternative to complacency.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We are all like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given - it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given—it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given—it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

To be macho, you must already know everything, know it so well that you're already bored by the knowledge.

Just as victorious were God`s rewards to virtuous ppl,so defeats were His means of shaking the country out of its complacency, spurring it on to greater efforts. She continually alternated between praising American virtues, condemning Am vices, which always seemed to her to be increasing.

We think we want comfort in the I-don't-know times of life. But comfort isn't a solution to seek; rather, it's a by-product we'll reap when we stay close to the Lord. What if the comfort and certainties we crave today are a deadly recipe for complacency that will draw our hearts further and further away from God?

In hindsight, it is tempting to dismiss every Fascist of this era as a thoroughly bad guy or a lunatic, but that is too easy, and by inducing complacency, also dangerous. Fascism is not an exception to humanity, but part of it. Even people who enlisted in such movements out of ambition, greed, or hatred likely were unaware of, or denied to themselves, their true motives.

The story of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia holds lessons that still need absorbing. Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.

The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice.

Men get lazy when life is too easy. Good minds go slack and good bodies get fat. Nine out of ten men in the ton have achieved nothing but the pursuit of pleasure.

The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.