Top 70 Complacent Quotes

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren’t. I wasn’t.

But I won’t work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

I can’t do only goody-goody roles. I can’t be complacent, I have to play characters in different genres.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that’s dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

I hope I never get complacent and continue to give my 100% to every film I make.

I feel like you gotta stay humble and keep working hard, never get complacent or satisfied.

I think it’s good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

I had become complacent in WWE when I got released in 2014. I had become unmotivated. I wasn’t driven. I was out of shape and just not focussed.

I don’t get complacent, because I know if you slack off, you’re going to be found out. This is international boxing, and every fight is a tough fight.

I have always wanted to work with Steven R. Monroe, and when I read his script, I was blown away! I think ‘Complacent’ hits a nerve that people try so desperately to avoid, which is what I love about Steven’s work.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

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

My father grew up in an era when to be an American – a white American, at least – was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

No person should become complacent by his/her work and think that he/she has done their best.

I feel like it’s dangerous to get complacent and celebrate too much… You can’t get comfortable.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

I’m confident, but I don’t think I’ve ever been complacent.

It’s unfathomable that Twitter would be so brazenly complacent, allowing Hamas to use its platform as a terror command and communications center of dangerous propaganda.

It’s gonna be on me to go out there every single night and make sure that I’m the best player that can be and I continue to work hard and don’t get complacent and do everything in my power to to be at that level.

When you get to a certain point in your career, it’s easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you’re not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

Happiness is dangerous. If you’re happy, you’re content, and if you’re content, you can become complacent.

I’ve always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I’m not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.

It’s easy to become complacent when you are earning decent money as a young player. It’s important to understand that there is a lot to achieve, and there is a long way to go before you are where you actually want to be.

I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent – see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.

I never thought I would get a National Award. For me, it was huge, and I got complacent.

You don’t want to get complacent and just accept things – just because we’ve had those moments and we have come so far, you don’t want to ever take that for granted, because the moment you do, it can all go away.

Every so often, we – women in film and TV – get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.

I had become a bit spoiled or complacent at Sporting and I needed a kick up the backside, which is what Everton gave me. It was quite tough going to an unfamiliar place where I didn’t know anyone at first.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Dreams of a Life’ and ‘Fresh Meat’ have left me on such a high. I’m not complaining but I’m not complacent either.

If there’s the opportunity to turn things around, that’s what great players do. They don’t complain or become complacent with losing. They just go back to work every day and try to turn things around and make wherever they are a great place to be.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

I believe if you become complacent about your work, it leads to a downfall.

Every day, you try to get better, and I don’t think I’ll ever be complacent and happy with where I am, no matter what.

Some guys, when they enjoy some success in this sport, they get complacent. Not me. It makes me work and train that much harder, helps to bring out the warrior in me.

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it’s easy to become complacent from the success you’ve had.

I’ve trained with trainers in L.A., and they get complacent. They’re used to dealing with celebrity egos, so they cotton-wool you a bit.

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you’ve found a niche don’t ever become complacent.

I should say that generally I’m a pretty happy person, but as soon as I’m done with a project, I’m usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.

We can’t have the mindset of becoming complacent with losing.

I admire Hrithik Roshan for his work a lot. He has an edge over others because he is very hard on himself, he’s never complacent, and he’s still not happy with that. How much more perfect can you get than that?

Kobe never got complacent. He always wanted more. And I think, ultimately, that’s going to be his legacy.

I’m very hard on myself. I think that drives me because I don’t want to let people down or let myself down. That fear of failing drives me from being complacent.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I think ‘Raw’ is complacent in the fact that ‘Raw’s’ been the flagship of WWE. ‘Smackdown’ wants to be number one.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of ‘cowards’ perpetuating ‘senseless acts of violence’ is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

I never want to get content. I never want to think that I’m at a certain spot and I’m gonna stay there, because this organization’s hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.

I’m really grateful for the opportunities I get. But I do spend a lot of time thinking about how lucky I am so I don’t become complacent about it.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you’re never going to draw another complacent breath again… or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you’d learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

You can’t just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

We don’t ever want to be complacent, and it’s good to look back and see places you can improve. That’s a good mentality to have.

My career had fallen into an abyss because I was so complacent with things that I had already accomplished. I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.

I think that a lot of people forget they’re in WWE and get complacent.

I don’t want to be complacent, ever.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It’s really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That’s all it takes.