Saint-John Perse Quotes

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Movement isn't progress.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Many a false step is made standing still.

The real risk is doing nothing.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

It's not going to be enough, until I get out of my chair and walk.

Awareness without action is worthless.

If you rest, you rust.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?