Inertia Quotes

• Nothing happens until something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

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• Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

  William James

  Life, Friendship, Littles

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Law, Lines, Matter

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• Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Decision, Laziness, Twins

  A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Special, Different, Would Be

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• Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Political, Affair

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• Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.

  Fitzhugh Dodson

  People, Goal, Important

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• 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

  Imagination, Mind, Slides

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• ... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Get Up, Steam

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

  Alexis Carrel

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  Beach, Ocean, Vacation

  "The Beach Book". Book by Gloria Steinem, 1963.

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• The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

  Robertson Davies

  Selfish, Trouble, Young

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Hate, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bored, Awful, Waiting For Godot

  Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

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• It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

  Rex Stout

  Choices, World, Force

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, p.174, Bantam

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• 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

  Real, Keys, Being Positive

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2012.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Writing, Frustration

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Decision, Leader, Complacency

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• If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Bridges, Water, Despair

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

  Walter Benjamin

  Events, Dexterity, May

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Alive, Worst

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.29, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

  Ben Stein

  Life, Pain, Real

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• It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Hipster

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

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