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• It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Justice, Community

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• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Growth, Easy

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• Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

  Jeremy Gutsche

  Architecture, Downfall

  Jeremy Gutsche (2009). “Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change”, Gotham

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• We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

  Robin Sharma

  Moving, New Normal, Comfort

  "Leaving Comfort Zones" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2017.

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• Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Plato, Loneliness, Companion

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• Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, States, Shattered

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• The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

  Malcolm Goodwin

  Overcoming, Obstacles, Hardest

  "Zombie Actor Malcolm Goodwin: Life-Changing Leap of Faith". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Francis Chan

  Religious, Falling In Love, Love Relationship

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2010). “Remembering the Forgotten God: An Interactive Workbook for Individual and Small Group Study”, p.125, David C Cook

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

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Teamwork, Volleyball

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

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

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Study

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.539, Routledge

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• It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Contentment, Steps, Bigs

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• 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.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Eye, Ideas, Democracy

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Hate, Political

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• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Teaching, Smugness

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• The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

  Howard Zinn

  Self, Speaks Out, Catalyst For Change

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.33, Beacon Press

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• Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

  Og Mandino

  Today, Tomorrow, Form

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

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Self, Menace

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• I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Beach, Hate

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• Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

  Joseph Grew

  Mind, Serious, Moral

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• 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

  Spiritual, Patterns, Behavior

  "John Stott: 10 Memorable Quotes" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Dear Friend, Clear

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 May 1783)

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• 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.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reality, Looks, Illusion

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

  Carly Fiorina

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Decision

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• What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, People, Want

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