Quotes about Stagnation
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
— James Allen
Individuals and church bodies are often caught in the paralysis of analysis. We
— Neil Anderson
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
— Paulo Coelho
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.
— George Clooney
It was a small, dim room and the air in it seemed heavy, as if it had not been disturbed for years.
— Ayn Rand
Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.
— Deepak Chopra
Often couples or close friends, even entire families, will enter into tacit compacts whereby each individual pledges (unconsciously) to remain mired in the same slough in which she and all her cronies have become so comfortable.
— Steven Pressfield
Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.
— Frank Peretti
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.
— Henri Nouwen