Complacency Quotes

"Too many easy victories can ruin a fighter just as much as a long line of defeats." "When you win so long, so much, you forget — you think your name will win. You forget the sacrifices, the work that goes into winning." "We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say, because if you're not trying to make something better, then really you're just complacent" "The only thing I fear is complacency" "The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve as the instrument of their decay." "The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." "To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men doing." "We live in a world where mediocrity is often rewarded." "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted" "Habit is a great deadener" "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing" "Expertise is the mantra of the mediocre." "The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing"