Inertia Quotes

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Not to decide is to decide.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

A tree falls the way it leans.

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

Ideas without action are worthless.

Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.

Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Deep down inside, I am lazy.

Procrastination is another form of resistance

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

I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is really hard. People that are sensitive, you just feel too porous sometimes. There's this inertia that sets in, and it's hard to get out of bed. I think knowing that other people go through it is really reassuring.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

The founders designed a government in which it was easier to do nothing than it was to do a great deal all at once.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.