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Complacency Quotes

"We live in a world where mediocrity is often rewarded."

"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"

"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care"

"Some people have so given up on life, they are willing to settle for anything"

"Habit is a great deadener"

"The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing"

"Expertise is the mantra of the mediocre."

"The only thing I fear is complacency"

"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

"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."

"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."

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable"

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