complacency, n.All

Complacency is a coin by the aid of which all the world can, for want of essential means, pay his club-bill in society. It is necessary, finally, that it may lose nothing of its merits, to associate judgment and prudence with it.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Complacency is the death of excellence

Complacency is easy when it is not ourselves being injured — It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

Complacency is the great enemy of intelligence.

Complacency is the enemy of progress.

Complacency is the death of success. Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested on.