complacency, n.Definitions

Complacency is the enemy of progress.

Complacency is the great enemy of intelligence.

Complacency is the death of excellence

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

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

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

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.