37 Quotes About Complacency

There is an epidemic of complacency in life. From that defining moment that you determine you are are not aligned with the many dreams and desires of your life, here are some great quotes about complacency that capture its associated dangers.

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

“An audience shouldn’t listen with complacency.”

“Complacency doesn’t make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.”

“Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.”

“Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.”

“Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.”

“Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.”

“Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”

“Familiarity breeds complacency.”

“God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do’s and don’ts-it’s falling in love with God.”

“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”

“Hate generalizes; love is particular.”

“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”

“He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.”

“I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.”

“I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.”

“I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.”

“I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.”

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It’s an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.”

“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”

“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple.”

“Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.”

“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

“The biggest mistake to me is complacency.”

“The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.”

“The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.”

“The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.”

“The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.”

“The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity.”

“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.”

“There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.”

“These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”

“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”

“You don’t want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don’t want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.”

“You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.”

Success leads to complacency and inadvertently take you down a path of failure.