Stagnant Quotes

• Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

  John Mason Good

  Happiness, Happy, Running

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• The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

  Orison S. Marden

  Motivational, Men, Progress

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• The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Dream, Science

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2012

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• Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

  Michael Arndt

  Perception, Self Improvement, Process

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• The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

  Terri Clark

  Moving, Thinking, Safe

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• A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Moving, Doors, Water

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• A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

  Alan Cohen

  Pool

  Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Comfort, Want, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Leadership, Sports, Teacher

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• Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

  King Hussein I

  Personality, Mind

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• No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ocean, Men, Self

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• Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tree, Sap, Laziness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Adversity, Mind, Body

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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• Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Life Changing, Reading

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 18, 2011

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• Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

  John French Sloan

  Consistency, Mind, Quality

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• It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

  Craig Charles

  Moving, Evolve, Dies

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• Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

  Romany Malco

  Pain, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ideas, Mind, Withered

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.86, Penguin

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• The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Sadness, Energy

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• If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

  Kate Tempest

  Water, Alive, Lost

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

  John Sterling

  Strong, Pain, Joy

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• The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Heart, Men, Inspire

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

  GG Allin

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• A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Water, Important, Ponds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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