Colin Wilson Quotes

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

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

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

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

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

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.

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

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Nothing fails like success.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

There are two things that kill a genius — a fatal disease and contentment.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

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.

I think that I've been living on my laurels.

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.

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

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

I'm not going to sit on my laurels.

In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.

Talent, it can become a trap.