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Complacent Quotes

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“You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.”
Julien Smith, The Flinch

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

Israelmore Ayivor
“Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen!”
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Israelmore Ayivor
“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!”
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Aspen Matis
“I could not deny that in this attractive city, without compelling assignments or any deadlines to reach for, all painful catalysts for growth had been eliminated, erased from my existence like the rogue lines in a sketch—the unexpected marks that make the picture’s expression passionate and real, gone now. Living here, I was growing complacent again, seduced by a stagnant state of mind I hated to indulge—”
Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

Allison Pataki
“Frivolity is destructive, and complacency is corrosive”
Allison Pataki, The Queen's Fortune

Abhijit Naskar
“Unleash your unsubmission,
and character unfolds.
Once character unfolds,
civilization unfolds.”
Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

Abhijit Naskar
“Either you are stir-crazy for reform or you are crazy complacent and calling the doers crazy.”
Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

Abhijit Naskar
“To hell with such self-centric soberness, I am better off with my life of madness.”
Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

Abhijit Naskar
“Better be an impractical fool with warmth, than a dead ribcage without a heart. Better be a law-defying bad samaritan, than a complacent bag of lard.”
Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

Abhijit Naskar
“Every time you bend, you break civilization.”
Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

Abhijit Naskar
“Break, don't bend.”
Abhijit Naskar

Abhijit Naskar
“Alien is not one from a different planet, alien is one who has no responsibility towards the people of this planet.”
Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

Abhijit Naskar
“Enough with nonchalance in the name of practicality! Let us now rise as tornado and wipe out all apathy.”
Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“So if we want to fulfill our human potential, then we can’t let ourselves be complacent or stopped either—we have to find our way forward and keep being replenished again and again. And in order to find our way, we need to be paying attention. We need to be aware of what is happening all around us.”
Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Abhijit Naskar
“There is no humanitarian crisis, there is just everyday, ordinary human indifference.”
Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

Abhijit Naskar
“In a world where indifference is deemed as sanity what's needed is a whole lot of mentalness, a whole lot of insanity, insanity for justice, insanity for equality, insanity for establishing the fundamental rights of life and living for each and every human being.”
Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

Frank Sonnenberg
“When things go right, much can go wrong.”
Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

Scott C. Holstad
“we lose more and more bits and pieces of our collective identity daily; the beaten generation indeed, self-inflicted wounds, and our elected officials keep watch over us intent on keeping us content and complacent, so we willingly sell ourselves out for more tax breaks and we continue to consume and destroy ourselves while watching each other with suspicion.”
Scott C. Holstad, Hang Gliding on X

Abhijit Naskar
“Everybody fears hell, all they
want is a heaven of convenience.
Only the brave can dare to break
into hell to rescue the innocent.”
Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

Abhijit Naskar
“Refurbished laptops are useless no more, refurbished awareness is awareness no more.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

Abhijit Naskar
“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of sheep.”
Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

Richie Norton
“After a long enough time, we stop seeking because we’d rather enjoy the hollow hope that we got it right than do the work it takes to actually get it right.”
Richie Norton

Abhijit Naskar
“Brain is there to think first, then take a side, but society teaches you to pick a side first, then think alike.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

Abhijit Naskar
“Dogs are known by pedigree,
humans are known by character.
Donkeys are known by obedience,
sapiens are known by our thunder.”
Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

Abhijit Naskar
“I don't write for sheep, cows, monkeys and donkeys, who comply with customs of prejudice-n-patriotism, I write for the humans who can love their neighbor, defying state propaganda and cultural validation.”
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

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