Stagnant Quotes

“Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“If we don't cultivate beauty and recognize its transformative power in enriching our lives, our creative spirit shall wither, leaving our life patterns stagnant and barren. We let this sink in. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You must live your story.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“When you become stagnant and aren’t improving by the day, you are only moving toward your failure.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Being stagnant in a business is the death of a business.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Harmony is our natural state of being, and so, when our energies become too stagnant, chaos is thrown into the mix to stimulate what will eventually result in balance and invite flow. The trick is to not let chaos trap or define you… simply allow it to create movement in the vehicle of your life so that you can snap your eyes open and take back control of the wheel. Do not lose yourself in the storm, instead, be the calm in the storm.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Đúng là tôi viết nhật kí, để đưa hiện tại của tôi ra khỏi thời gian, để ngày hôm trước được tồn tại, vĩnh viễn. Nhưng tôi bắt đầu nhận thấy sự nguy hiểm của vĩnh cửu. Đã 3 mùa trôi qua, mà hiện tại của tôi ngày một tệ hại. Sự vĩnh cửu, giống như vũng nước tù, càng vĩnh cửu càng hôi thối, càng lắm kí sinh trùng. Chính vì vậy, tôi đã xé nhật kí.”
― Trần Dần, Những ngã tư và những cột đèn

“The less you move on the ground
the more the world moves around.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“Perhaps the only reason why you worry in life, tarry your goals and bury your joy is that you are still bearing the untold story of you untouched, which seems to bang on the doors of your heart every time! Go and open the way, and fulfill your destiny!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."
Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Fuck potential. And fuck opportunity. If you don’t act now, both are dead in the sky-castles of your big dreaming eyes. I mean, worship opportunities when they come, but blaspheme their existence in the distance and work as if you’ll never get another one.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Anxiety always originates from a lie. All lies, whether self generated or accepted from another person, will resonate as a pendulum swinging to and fro as a reminder of an inconsistency with truth and impeccability. The further the lie is carried, the more the intensity of anxiety builds. The feeling may begin as unease, building to angst, translating to anxiety, panic, and even dread. Ultimately, anxiety creates stagnancy. What's the solution? Speak the truth even if it scares you. Be authentic.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Freedom begins in the mind of the individual. You'll never be able to do a particular thing if you don't navigate your thoughts positively. Complaining and neglecting to take action creates stagnation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“The worst thing that can ever happen to a couple is not cheating, but it's reaching a plateau in your relationship's sensual growth.”
― Lebo Grand

“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves are not paying sufficient attention.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

“On stuck status? Don't crush the groove, bust a move.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“... You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation.”
― Brian Clevinger, 8-Bit Theater

“But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another that one could not feel them pass.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“If it's not right, keep editing until it is. ~ Life”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

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― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl

“A wind will bring a freshness to an otherwise stagnant pond.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If we explore only well-trodden paths, if we avoid games we don’t know how to play, we’ll remain stagnant. Only when you’re dancing in the dark, only when you don’t know where the light switch is—or even what a light switch is—can progress begin.”
― Ozan Varol, Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

“Change is personal. If you don't work on you, your life and the world around you will seem the same.”
― DON SANTO

“To make heritage out of consciousness
is to make garbage out of consciousness.
To make tradition out of stagnation
is to make fertilizer out of living veins.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“To make tradition out of stagnation is to make fertilizer out of living veins.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Life remains stagnant without a goal”
― Davidson Prabu