Quotes of Inertia - somelinesforyou

“ The way to be nothing is to do nothing. ”

- Nathaniel Howe

“ I never worry about action, but only about inaction. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ 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

“ The first step is the hardest. ”

- Marie de Vichy Chamrond

“ The first step is the hardest. ”

- Unknown

“ Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ The great thing is the start — to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer — and him for nothing. ”

- Robert Collier

“ 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

“ 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

“ I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. ”

- Bill Murray

“ To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

“ Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. ”

- Charles Schumer

“ As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck. ”

- David Hasslehoff

“ The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so you've got to perform. ”

- Jack Kramer

“ Many are called but few get up. ”

- Oliver Herford

“ To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last — but eat you he will. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion. ”

- J. G. Gallimore

“ Once you're moving, you can keep moving. ”

- Ronald Alan Weiss

“ That's why many fail — because they don't get started — they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies. ”

- La Rochefoucauld

“ He did nothing in particular, And did it very well. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm. ”

- Jef Raskin

“ Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay. ”

- Arthur Kroker

“ 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
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