Stagnation is self-abdication.

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because…

— Ayn Rand

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel…

— Frederick Douglass

“Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.”

— Idowu Koyenikan

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

— Charles M. Blow

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests…

— George Will

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often…

— Carl Bernstein

Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in…

— Ayn Rand

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Soon after this meeting with the Morelands came the period of crisis leading up to the Abdication, one of those public events which occupied…

— Anthony Powell

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

— Emily Dickinson

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson