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You are -- your life, and nothing else.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

~ Jon Krakauer

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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

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Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon as you let success go to your head, you sink into following familiar patterns and play it safe. In other words, you risk losing your edge.

~ Roy T. Bennett

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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

~ Mike Patton

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Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on the prize ahead. Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don’t need to or can’t go down it. You can. We have.

~ Rebecca Solnit

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The dream is over only when you have become complacent.

~ Lorin Morgan-Richards

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Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records. 

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

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There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

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All through their relationship, Harry was the one in charge, Harry was the one who gave them direction. This wasn’t because Harry was smarter or even better at it than Craig was; it just meant more to him, to be in control. And Craig didn’t really care, so he ceded it away. He liked not being responsible all the time.Complacency. Craig realizes now that this was complacency. One of the reasons he liked the sound of Harry’s voice was because it meant he didn’t have to use his own. But eventually this strategy backfired. Eventually Harry realized what was happening, and didn’t feel right about it. He wanted Craig to fight a little more, but by the time Craig started fighting for them to stay together, he had already lost.

~ David Levithan

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Don’t be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you’ve been.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

~ Dan Rather

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If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.

~ Mishi Mccoy

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The world, I tell you, is bored -- bored now to the explosive pitch. It's bored by all this incessant war preparation. It is bored by aimless violence, now here, now there. It is tired of hatred politics. It's tired of fresh murders every day. It is not indignant, not excited; it is bored. Bored and baffled...I don't believe a man begins to know anything of politics until he realises the immense menace of mental fatigue, of world-wide mass boredom. It accumulates. It makes the most frightful convulsions and demoralisation possible. It makes them at last inevitable. Nobody wants fundamental changes in a world where hope and interest prevail. Then people accept their careers, settle down to them, rear children. But throw them out of work, in and out and no sense of security, deprive them of bright expectations, regiment them in masses, underfeed them, bore them with organised mass patriotism, and they begin to seep together into a common morass of discontent and impatience. Almost unconsciously...They're like that now.

~ H.g. Wells

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The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness.'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.'But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

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During my time in the military it was always preached that complacency could kill you, literally.Complacency - a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.In your business and life complacency can kill as well, it can kill your aspirations, your goals, but more importantly it can kill your dreams.Take time to celebrate the wins, but keep moving forward, don't get complacent.

~ Fernando The Spartangomez

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Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

~ A.d. Posey

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I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

~ Howard Zinn

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Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

~ Sonia Rumzi

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Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

~ Tana French

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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

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I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!

~ Bill Maher

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Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.

~ James C. Collins

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A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds

~ ;Robert Fanney

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An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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for me, to say I yet to begin gives me reasons not to look back and see what I have done but ,to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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for me, to say that I am yet to begin gives me the real reason not to look back and see what I have done but, to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

~ Lorii Myers

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Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Both tears and sweat are salty. but none of them are faulty. the tears can get you somewhere, the sweat will make you only wet.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

~ Abraham Flexner

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To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

~ George Keller

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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

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Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones, you need them to jump up. They should not become beds that should keep you comfortably sleeping.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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