Vance Havner Quotes

I think when people get comfortable is when they fall off.

That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.

You never want to be too comfortable because that's when you start to get complacent and start doing those little stupid things and getting too relaxed.

When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

If you get comfortable, that's how you fall off.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Nothing fails like success.

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

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

When you stop adapting, you lose your edge and you can only go down.

I believe if you become complacent about your work, it leads to a downfall.

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.

The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

If you stop working hard, that's when things get to your head.

Talent, it can become a trap.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.