Stagnation Quotes

• Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fate, Winning

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Love Life, Iron

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• Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

  Paul Ryan

  Class, Roots, Growth

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

  Leonard Sweet

  Simple, Scary, Don't Change

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.73, Zondervan

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• Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

  Bertrand Russell

  Liberty, Littles, Too Much

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.44, Routledge

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• Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Brother, Exercise, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Moving, Movement

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 5), 2000.

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• If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Life, Intelligent, Civilization

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Individuality, Needs

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  New Year, Fear, Opportunity

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• The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Enemy Of Progress, Enemy, Progress

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• there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

  Eleanor Dark

  Yield, Creative, Mind

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• Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Action, Corruption, Idleness

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.37

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• Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Moving, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.5, Tuttle Publishing

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Exaltation

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Growth, Contentment, Decay

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Lying, Thinking

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Intelligent, Civilization, Progress

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

  David Ogilvy

  Innovation

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.94, Profile Books

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• Security breeds stagnation.

  Andy Warhol

  Security

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• Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Progress, Agitation, Born

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Money, Unique, May

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• There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Growth, Return

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

  Amy Lowell

  Happiness, Elation, Mere

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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