Complacency Quotes

• The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Leadership, Motivation, Mean

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• Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

  Pat Riley

  Team, Greatness, Lasts

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

  Helen Keller

  Progress, Path, Done

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

  Andy Grove

  Success, Fear, Business

  "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth". Book by Robert E Litan and William Baumol, p. 228, 2007.

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• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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• 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

  Arrogant, Arms, Scared

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• I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Congratulations

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.55, Bantam

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• We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Today, Facts

  "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence". Speech at Riverside Church in New York City, April 4, 1967.

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• Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

  "The Size of the Soul: Principles of Revival and Spiritual Growth". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1992.

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• Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Lists, Should

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• Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

  Brian Tracy

  Enemy

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.25, Jaico Publishing House

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• We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Self Confidence, Design, Comfort Zone

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• Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Struggle, Fighting, Smugness

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• 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

  Men, Civilization, Moral Corruption

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• The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Spiritual, Average, Years

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• Change before you have to.

  Jack Welch

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

  Jeremy Gutsche

  Architecture, Downfall

  Jeremy Gutsche (2009). “Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change”, Gotham

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• Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

  Lennox Lewis

  Focus, Needs, Sometimes

  Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Familiarity breeds complacency.

  Rick Warren

  Familiarity

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• It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Justice, Community

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• Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

  Og Mandino

  Today, Tomorrow, Form

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• It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Contentment, Steps, Bigs

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• What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, People, Want

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• 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

  Life, Character, Individuality

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