Quotes about Stagnation

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

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

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.