Complacency Quotes

• Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

  Andy Grove

  Success, Fear, Business

  "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth". Book by Robert E Litan and William Baumol, p. 228, 2007.

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• Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Children, Mean, Child Of God

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2015

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

  Helen Keller

  Progress, Path, Done

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

  Pat Riley

  Team, Greatness, Lasts

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Leadership, Motivation, Mean

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• 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.

  Colin Powell

  Arrogant, Arms, Scared

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

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Congratulations

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.55, Bantam

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• We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Today, Facts

  "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence". Speech at Riverside Church in New York City, April 4, 1967.

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

  "The Size of the Soul: Principles of Revival and Spiritual Growth". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1992.

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Lists, Should

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• Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

  Brian Tracy

  Enemy

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.25, Jaico Publishing House

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• We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Self Confidence, Design, Comfort Zone

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• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

  John Stott

  Echoes, Mind, Scripture

  "Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

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• 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.

  E. Digby Baltzell

  Men, Civilization, Moral Corruption

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• Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

  Joan Rivers

  Kissing, Form, Kiss Of Death

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

  Jack Nicklaus

  Struggle, Fighting, Smugness

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• Change before you have to.

  Jack Welch

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Spiritual, Average, Years

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• Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

  Lennox Lewis

  Focus, Needs, Sometimes

  Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

  Rich Mullins

  Spiritual, Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves

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• One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Familiarity breeds complacency.

  Rick Warren

  Familiarity

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• If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

  Kevin Gates

  Peer Pressure, Peers, Kevin

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