quotations about complacency
Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.
TANA FRENCH
In the Woods
A complacent life is a life of mediocrity, settling for what life offers us and not demanding what we want from life.
OLUWASANMI OYEWUMI
Discover Yourself: Awaken The Authentic You and Unleash Your Greatness
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, Master of Others
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep
Or sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep
IVORYLINE
"Day's End"
A complacent man is a defeated man.
IMHOTEP ASIS FATIU
African Manhood in the 21st Century
Complacency ... is a bit like the plague. It's catching and it spreads, you don't hear it and you don't see it and by the time you realise what is happening the damage is done.
SHANE CAHOON
20 Insane But True Facts About Marriage Counseling
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
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, D.C., April 20, 1961
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
A.W. TOZER
The Size of the Soul
The real evil, the fundamental cause of all the problems of the world today -- the fact that two-thirds of the world live in absolute poverty, on less than a dollar a day, while others have not even that, and are dying in the millions -- the root of all of that is our complacency. If we were not complacent we could not bear to live in a world in which these events were happening, these people were dying in the midst of plenty. We would not allow it to happen if we were not complacent. This is something which we need to remember ... because this is the root of all the troubles in the world. It is a sign of our separateness. Complacency results from separation -- the sense that we are separate and that by competition we become superior.
BENJAMIN CREME
The World Teacher for All Humanity
A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself ... so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.
EUGENE O'NEILL
"The Extraordinary Story of Eugene O'Neill", American Magazine, November 1922
Life is for living not for been stuck in a rut of complacency.
STEVEN REDHEAD
Life Is a Dance
We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.
BILL MAHER
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden
Complacency is the death of dreams.
ISAAC HOOKE
Atlas
All progression, it stems from conclusion
Complacency, it's obsolete
We're engineered to thrive, we're engineered to thrive
And thrive we will
THRIVE
"The Contortionist"
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable.... Without persistent effort, time itself becomes an ally of the insurgent and primitive forces of irrational emotionalism and social destruction. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Complacency is like a slow death. If you put your left arm in a sling never lifting anything, while you worked out every day with your right arm, what do you think would happen to your left arm? It would become weak and useless. That is what complacency does to your mind.
BOB OROS
Persistence
The mind that is stored with virtuous and rational sentiments, and the behaviour which is founded upon complacency and humility, stamp a value upon the possessor, which all men of discernment are ever ready to admire and acknowledge.
AESOP
"The Peacock and the Crane", The Fables of Aesop
Escape the repetitive whirlwind that life can become through complacency.
STEVEN REDHEAD
Life Is a Cocktail
Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap. But don't kid yourself. The cost of complacency is real, and it can be tragic. We slide into habits of mediocrity and excuse making. Life gets boring, and we're not sure why. We know, or at least suspect, that there's a lot more we could do or be. But floating along, there's no way to be sure. Might as well take another nap.
ALEX & BRETT HARRIS
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Complacency or self-congratulation can imperil our security as much as the weapons of tyranny. A moment of pause is not a promise of peace.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 14, 1963