Inertia Quotes

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

— Jane Siberry

The first step is the hardest.

— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

The only menace is inertia.

— Saint-John Perse

Depression is inertia.

— Wayne Dyer

Mental inertia is death.

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

Inertia is the death of creativity

— Austin Kleon

Nothing happens until something moves.

— Albert Einstein

Silence is the language of inertia.

— Margaret Heffernan

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

— Alexis Carrel

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Apparently the law of Inertia affects writing too.”

— A.A. Cheshire

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

— Henri Bergson

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

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Mark Twain

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

— Maurice Strong

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

— Alexis Carrel

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or…

— Ron Fournier

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I…

— Ridley Scott

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted…

— W. Clement Stone

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

— Seth Godin

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

— Rajmani Tigunait

“Vadderung grinned. “I’ve never heard it phrased quite like that, but it’s accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous…

— Jim Butcher

Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions…

— John Dewey

You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you…

— Napoleon Hill

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.…

— Dorothea Brande

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it…

— Anonymous

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas…

— George Santayana

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of…

— Simon Travaglia

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my…

— Henry Miller

Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely…

— Jim Butcher

We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples…

— Henry Franklin Floyd

Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you…

— Maya Angelou

It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine…

— Nadia Boulanger

While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of…

— Carol J. Adams

“[Neurotic] pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build…

— Karen Horney

“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too…

— Henry Miller