Quotes about Complacency

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

God, I thank thee, I am not as the rest of men, or even as this publican. It is in that which is just cause for thanksgiving, it is in the very thanksgiving which we render to God, it may be in the very confession that God has done it all, that self finds its cause of complacency. Yes, even when in the temple the language of penitence and trust in God's mercy alone is heard, the Pharisee may take up the note of praise, and in thanking God be congratulating himself.

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: 'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.

That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.