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Stagnation Quotes

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
War, Progress, Stagnation

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

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

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

Amy Lowell
Happiness, Elation, Stagnation

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

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 “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.94, Profile Books

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

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

Security breeds stagnation.

Andy Warhol
Stagnation, Security

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

Kimon Nicolaides
Technique, Causes, Stagnation
Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

Bill Bright
Inspiration, Frustration, Stagnation
Bill Bright (1970). “Come Help Change the World”

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Seneca the Younger
Employment, Indolence, Stagnation

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Frank Herbert
Path, Stagnation
Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Samuel Butler
Ethics, Morality, Stagnation
Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4218, Delphi Classics

Gotta keep moving; can't stop; stagnation kills.

Lisa Mangum
Moving, Keep Moving, Stagnation

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

Christian Nestell Bovee
States, Felicity, Stagnation
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.134

Anything is better than stagnation.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Stagnation
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4255, Delphi Classics

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