David Hackworth Quotes

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

He that's secure is not safe.

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

I fear, my Lords, it is too much the temper of this country to be insensible of the approach of danger, until it comes with accumulated terror upon us.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

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.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

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

Don't be lulled into complacency.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

You cannot take things for granted.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.