Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. - John Sloan
The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy. - Glenn C. Stewart
Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause. - Donna Lynn Hope
Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful. - Nikki Rowe
Easier said than done' is the mantra of the stagnant; the creed of the unchanging. - Steve Maraboli
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant. - Denise Levertov
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. - Johnny Cash
...he wanted me to come home--to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond. - James Baldwin
How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it. - Matthew Donnelly
Stagnant people tend to live stagnant lives. - Toni Sorenson
Learning is the source of growth and we become stagnant without it. - Euginia Herlihy