The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
People get careless when they're feeling safe.
If you get comfortable, that's how you fall off.
