Quotes of: Complacency Keyword

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

Middlemarch

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

The Pale King

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.

Nouriel Roubini

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

Laura Prepon

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.

Aesop

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Dustin Moskovitz

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

Kevin Rudd

The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be peaceful.

Ilyas Kassam

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

W. Somerset Maugham

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

Frances O'Grady

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

Alain de Botton

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty.

W. Somerset Maugham

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

Martin Filler

Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Don't be discouraged or complacent; keep reading it, keep sharing it because it's God's page opened in your life!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Handle with Care

You've always got to have a plan. Keep thinking ahead. Don't ever get complacent.

Make The Most of Your Money

Leave it to fate to tease you with comfort and complacency before turning your world upside down.

Wolves Fear to Prey

Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it; but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding.

Sanjo Jendayi

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Rowan Williams

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie