Thomas Brooks Quotes

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

He that's secure is not safe.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

During the times of peace and prosperity a leader becomes careless and unmindful of the future

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

When the wart-hog looks up at the sky, it gets its throat slit.

National glory is a deceiving seducer. When it reaches a certain height, it clasps the head with an iron band. The enclosed sees nothing in the mist but his own picture; he is susceptible to no foreign impressions.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

When you are accustomed to winning, when you are used to winning, then afterwards you tend not to have the same level of concentration. Sometimes you go into the games thinking you have already won because you are so strong.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.