Claire Fox Quotes

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

The last thing I want to do is be complacent.

I never get complacent with anything.

You should always want more. If you get comfortable with what you have done, you can never go to that next level.

If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

I just want to do something challenging.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.