Inertia Quotes
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Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.
— M. Scott Peck
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
when there is an increase in the mode of ignorance.O son of Kuru, darkness,inertia, madness are manifested. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mass: The quantity of matter in a body; its inertia, or resistance to acceleration.
— Stephen Hawking
The assertion that "somebody else will not let me do anything" should always be suspected as a cover-up for inertia.
— Peter F. Drucker
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
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
— A. J. Jacobs
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
— Anna Quindlen
Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.
— James Thornton
It takes much more than logic and clear-cut demonstrations to overcome the inertia and dogma of established though.
— Irwin Stone
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.
— Dorothea Brande
The coins were completely unprepared for this and were sadly deceived by their own inertia.
— Pawan Mishra
Depression is inertia.
— Wayne Dyer
Silence is the language of inertia.
— Margaret Heffernan
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
— Henri Bergson
Any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
— Gustave Flaubert
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
— Ron Fournier
Inertia is often mistaken for patience.
— Marty Rubin
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
— Deepak Chopra
Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement.
— George Orwell
Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia,
— Gregory Benford
Mental inertia is death.
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
— Maya Angelou
CEOs of large firms often fail to read the handwriting on the wall, because of complacence, inertia, or overconfidence.
— Navi Radjou
Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.
— Stanley King
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
— Mignon McLaughlin
At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.
— Michael LaRocca
Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.
— Cristina Nehring
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.
— Craig Lancaster
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
— Gabrielle Roth
Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.
— Nana Awere Damoah
Inertia is the death of creativity
— Austin Kleon
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
— Elbert Hubbard
Nothing happens until something moves.
— Albert Einstein
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
— George Santayana
It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
— John Green
At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.
— Frank Warren
It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.
— Fernando Pessoa
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
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
— Edward Dahlberg
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
— Robert Harris
Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.
— Amanda Craig
In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?
— Adolf Hitler
The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
— Edward L. Bernays
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.
— Paul Wellstone
Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
— Marcel Proust
Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
— Napoleon Hill
Rajas is activity and Tamas inertia. Sattva is the balance of these two, for only consciousness can balance kinetic energy with potential energy.
— Robert E. Svoboda
It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
— Rex Stout
Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:
— William Shakespeare
The two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.
— William Faulkner
Once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.
— Swami Prabhavananda
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
— Todd Gitlin
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
— David Ben-Gurion
People today ... it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.
— Brandon Sanderson
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
— Ben Stein
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
— Thomas Huxley
The only menace is inertia.
— Saint-John Perse
A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
It takes forever if you go by inertia ...
— Jane Siberry
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
— Seth Godin
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
— Donald James
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
— Maurice Strong