Avoiding Complacency Quotes

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

I think, the more of a student I am, the better it will be for my work because it means once you have too many accolades you don't try harder. I would never allow myself to think that I don't have to try harder. I like the idea of always learning, always trying to do better. The word "master" sits uneasy on my terms.

Take care! : Idle hands work for Hitler.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I'm very hard on myself. I think that drives me because I don't want to let people down or let myself down. That fear of failing drives me from being complacent.

It's important not to take anything for granted.