The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force. — W. Clement Stone
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force. — Isaac Newton
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. — Joan D. Vinge
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. — Samuel Butler
At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning. — Jenny Holzer
Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself. — Lao Tzu
Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains. — Albert Einstein
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics? — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose. — Richard DeVos
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. — Farley Mowat
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Indifference creates an artificial peace. — Mason Cooley
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance. — Josemaria Escriva
Short Inertia Quotes
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. — Aleister Crowley
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change. — Gabrielle Roth
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green
Depression is inertia. — Wayne Dyer
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. — Elbert Hubbard
The only menace is inertia. — St. John Perse
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. — Maurice Strong
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The only menace is inertia. — Saint-John Perse
Movie Quotes
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. — Dorothea Brande
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. — Learned Hand
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. — W. Clement Stone
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. — Ben Stein
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. — K. Eric Drexler
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. — George Bernard Shaw
Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist — Nikola Tesla
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia. — Mary Parker Follett
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me. — Elizabeth Towne
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security. — David Ben-Gurion
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive. — Margaret Heffernan
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits. — Maurice Strong
When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going. — Brian Tracy
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways. — Lawren Harris
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. — Mahatma Gandhi
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future. — Max McKeown
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line. — Isaac Newton
There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people. — Amar Bose
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action. — Herbert Schiller
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. — Thomas Hardy
Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out. — Kristin Armstrong
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories. — George Eliot
As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up. — Peter Russell
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played. — Daley Thompson
You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success. — Napoleon Hill
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. — Ridley Scott
The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong." — Max Tegmark
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. — Walt Whitman
He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed. — George Orwell
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing. — Deepak Chopra
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity. — Ludwig von Mises
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