Jack London Quotes

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

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

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

You never want to be too comfortable because that's when you start to get complacent and start doing those little stupid things and getting too relaxed.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

Insanity is coasting through life.

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

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