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Arrogance corrupts. -- Toba Beta
Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall. -- Jeremy Gutsche
Fear stagnation; embrace change. -- Debasish Mridha
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. -- Alain De Botton
procrastination, -- George S. Clason
this preoccupation with order, control, -- Richard Rohr
It is our Complacency will make us lost. -- Glenda Radores
The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution. -- Jim Rohn
A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority. -- Margo Kelly
comprehending little and caring less. -- Marya Hornbacher
Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney. -- Sonia Rumzi
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term. -- David House
It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world. -- Kunal Narayan Uniyal
We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination -- Sunday Adelaja
Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego. -- Edgar Mitchell
Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures. -- Peter F. Drucker
Stagnation is self-abdication. -- Ryan Talbot
OVERCONFIDENCE. We often stroll through life, thinking everything will be fine, until suddenly it isn't. -- Timothy J. Keller
When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and we sacrifice the best of our potential to the worst of our decisions. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Disillusionment is the enemy of prosperity and well-being -- Sunday Adelaja
People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present. -- Tim I. Gurung
Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect. -- John P. Kotter
We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled. -- Lebron James
Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal. -- John Fairclough
Many people have reasons and excuses for inaction, not the reasons for actions; or they neglect them -- Keerthi Singhe
Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying. -- Ann Spangler
Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence - call it what you will - is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness. -- Matthew Flinders
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. -- Stephen Covey
Overconfidence precedes carelessness. -- Toba Beta
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. -- Bill Walsh
Excuses are incompatible with excellence. The -- Eric Greitens
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility. -- Peter Kreeft
Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure. This is no mere statement of a theory - it is a fact. Procrastination, -- Napoleon Hill
Sometimes the enemy is not competition, but rather the comfort of repetition and complacency. -- Anonymous
Change is fearsome, but stagnation is lethal. -- Debasish Mridha
We underestimate ourselves, we do not believe in our strength, abilities, and talents and we have a distorted vision of ourselves -- Sunday Adelaja
Ignorant of the place it had been and blind to where it was headed. -- Clive Barker
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me. -- Malcolm Gladwell
How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that one of the biggest flaws of
mankind is that we become complacent with our lives. -- Daniel Willey
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency. -- James C. Collins
Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long. -- Israelmore Ayivor
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. -- Nick Cave
This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves. -- John Gimlette
Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up being satisfied with remarkably accurate answers to meaningless questions and dissatisfied with imprecise answers that attempt to respond to the important issues. -- D.a. Blankinship
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul -- Plato
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. -- Andy Grove
A chronic failing of human beings, that we so rarely looked up. -- Wildbow
We're our own hardest critics and it's easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating. -- Marina Keegan
One half of the world fears stagnation and the other half change. -- Marty Rubin
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. -- Orson Welles
There are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary -- Jane Austen
We're not consistent. We're not stable. We don't stick with anything. Most of the time we can't even make decisions. -- Kevin Deyoung
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. -- Nigel Kennedy
By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or another, real or imaginary. -- Jane Austen
The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency. -- Malcolm Goodwin
There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism, -- Stephen Harper
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. -- Diane Ravitch
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Excuses are tools of the incompetent -- Mike Tomlin
Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage.
Naomi Littlebear -- Cherrie L. Moraga
Our lack of focus is our primary problem and the source of many of our difficulties, like procrastination, trouble setting priorities, trouble dealing with time, trouble finishing projects, perfectionism, and the inevitable demoralization. -- Douglas A. Puryear
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent. -- William Watson
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. -- Robert Breault
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
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity ... are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. -- James C. Collins
Weaknesses - the tendency to get lost in analysis. -- Chip Heath
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. -- Christian D. Larson
Apathy. I haven't yet reached that stage. I'm still at the complaining one, but I imagine that soon - in a matter of months, days, or hours - a complete lack of interest will set in that will be very hard to dispel. -- Paulo Coelho
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. -- Brenda Shoshanna
impossible planning, strange priorities and a continual lack of information. -- Henning Mankell
Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
We blame our bosses, the economy, our politicians, other people, or we write ourselves off as failures or our goals as impossible. When really only one thing is at fault: our attitude and approach. -- Ryan Holiday
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term. -- Al Gore
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. -- Howard Zinn
People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes. -- Arlene Dickinson
The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To -- Carlos Castaneda
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense. -- Avan Jogia
It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space. -- Winston Churchill
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future. -- L. Ron Hubbard
The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo. -- Kristin Linklater
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. -- Ayn Rand
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. -- George Canning
Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality. -- Robert Greene
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. -- Epictetus
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. -- Kingsley Amis
Once again I distrusted happiness, mistaking it for complacency. -- Rob Spillman
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. -- Robert Genn
Victim Mentality. Some choose to believe that there is nothing they can do to solve their problems, even when they in fact could. Victims seek to blame others for their problems or blame outside circumstances. This -- Mark Manson
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency. -- Joe Abercrombie
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. -- Marc Bekoff
Change can be your friend;
complacency is always your enemy. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy. -- Andy Stanley
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise. -- Augustine Of Hippo
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. -- George Gissing
The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience -- Phil Harding
Apathy is giving up when we need to get up. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders. -- Michael Horton
