Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

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

I'm not ambitious.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

Long, continuous periods of peace and prosperity have always brought about the physical, mental and moral deterioration of the individual.

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

I don't want to be complacent.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.