Top 50 Complacency Quotes

I didn’t want to fall into the trap of complacency.

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you’re not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there’s a lot of complacency in that, too.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

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.

I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I’m always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that’s when I feel it’s time to move on to something else.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols – boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale – from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband – is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn’t become complacency. If you say, ‘We’re not going to change; we didn’t do it that way before,’ then you’ve become too old.

Here’s what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

There’s a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can’t afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in – particularly for the English.

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

If you don’t have competition in a squad, you can have complacency – and, if you have complacency, you won’t win.

I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There’s still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

WWE has no issues with my stand-up. I do not miss work for any reason and will continue to work around my schedule because I’m a professional and do not allow complacency or laziness.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there’s a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions.

Don’t be lulled into complacency.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

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.

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today’s shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.

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

People care when service is sluggish and comes from an arrogance and complacency that often besets those who know they can never lose their jobs.

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I’d like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency – the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that’s never a good place to be working from.

Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

It’s competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it’s a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.

When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my senior year to worry too seriously about my post-graduation prospects. Indeed, most of my professors, advisors, and mentors reinforced this complacency.

An audience shouldn’t listen with complacency.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.