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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

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. — Tony Blair

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

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib. — Atul Gawande

Silence is the language of inertia. — Margaret Heffernan

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. — Henri Bergson

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind. — Kim Stanley

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

Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt."

-Mander Zuma — Jeff Grubb

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

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia. — Alexis Carrel

Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] — Horace

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

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change. — David Jaber

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

When I crash, I will be inertia mass acceleration force gravity opposite equal everything. I will be nothing. — Amy Zhang

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

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain

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

It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. — Zadie Smith

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

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

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

The laws of physics that deal with inertia also apply to humans, such that situations tend to remain the same over time. — Del Suggs

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

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. — Alexis Carrel

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

Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted. — Jane Austen

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

To be reborned many times over, you must unleash the power of inertia. But must you go out every time and reach for your highest potential? — C.C. Wyatt

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

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. — Aleister Crowley

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

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins — Tony Hsieh

The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. — Swami Prabhavananda

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there. — Tahir Shah

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic. — Gayle Forman

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. — Todd Gitlin

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name. — Emma Goldman

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

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. — Woody Allen

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

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to. — Andrew Mason

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