Stagnation Quotes

Stagnation Quote of the day

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

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

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.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

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

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

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

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

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

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

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

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.

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

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

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

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Security breeds stagnation.

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

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

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.

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

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

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

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.