Inertia Quotes

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in oursel...

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...

Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on va...

Nothing happens until something moves.

She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ...

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia w...

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or t...

This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling is...

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains...

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

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb t...

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, eac...