Quotes by Complacency Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility. Charles Koch complacencyworst-enemyhumility Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. Chuck Grassley taxpayerscomplacencyhurt 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 arrogantcomplacencyarms Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally. David Frum complacencydemocracyvulnerable Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. David Myers pessimismcomplacencyoptimism The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. Diane Ravitch complacencyobstaclesreform It's always good to be underestimated. Donald Trump complacencyunderestimatedmotivation To be content with the world as it is is to be dead. Dorothee Solle complacencyworld 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 complacencymencivilization Many people love in themselves what they hate in others E. F. Schumacher complacencyhatepeople Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death. Edgard Varese complacencygoalmen If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference. Edward Kennedy sirenscomplacencygenerations Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency. Frances G. Wickes complacencyhateself Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. Franz Grillparzer complacencylonelinessplato Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka complacencyvanityliterature Hate is only conquered by love. Gautama Buddha complacencyapologyhate The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself! Friedrich Nietzsche complacencymatterhappiness Peace is first of all the art of being. Henri Nouwen complacencyartfirsts I'm from the American West. We have forest fires out there. And some of the worst forest fires in our history, the most damage were caused when we pulled the fire crews off the line too early. And so we're going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy - ISIS. There's no room for complacency on this. James Mattis complacencyworstenemy We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this. James Mattis complacencyenemy«12345»
