Quotes about inertia

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

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

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

— J. G. Gallimore

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

— William Hazlitt

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

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

— Sir Isaac Newton

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

— Alexander Pope

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

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

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

The first step is the hardest.

— Marie De Vichy-Chamrond

Once you're moving you can keep moving.

— Ronald Alan Weiss