For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
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.
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.
The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.
Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
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.
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.
Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success