Complacency Enemy Quotes & Sayings

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success. — Brian Tracy

My creativity isn't rooted in confidence. It grows from many things, no doubt, but chief among them is a deep, rebellious, and indeed almost hostile stance toward complacency- about anything. It feels like the enemy. And certainty? It closes doors. Ends discussions. Shuts other people out. — Robin Black

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong

Sometimes the enemy is not competition, but rather the comfort of repetition and complacency. — Anonymous

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility. — Charles Koch

So much of the time it is not complacency that threatens but its opposite, impetuosity. We see something that is wrong, whether in the world or in the church, and we fly into action, righting the wrong, confronting sin and wickedness, battling the enemy, and then we go out vigorously recruiting "Christian soldiers". — Eugene H. Peterson

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency. — Natalie Angier

Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency. — Frederick Lenz

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles. — Albert Camus

Complacency is the enemy of study. — Mao Zedong

Change can be your friend;
complacency is always your enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

America faces many challenges ... but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency. — Charles M. Vest

The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest ... Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish. — Michael Chertoff

The enemy of stability can be complacency — Ross Brawn

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy. — C.S. Lewis

Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency. — John Dos Passos

It's the age-old tale of complacency, Shea." The tall warrior sighed deeply and stretched as he rose. "We may be standing on the brink of the greatest war in a thousand years, but no one wants to accept the fact. Everyone gets in the same rut - let a few take care of the gates to the city while the rest forget and go back to their homes. It becomes a habit - depending on a few to protect the rest. And then one day ... the few are not enough, and the enemy is within the city - right through the open gates ... — Terry Brooks