standing still Quotes

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

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

Many a false step is made standing still.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

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

In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.

The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.