Overcoming Inertia Quotes

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.

People who won’t take step number one never take step number two.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.

It's the start that stops most people.

Inertia is as powerful a force in society and politics as it is on physics, and effecting change can be demanding and discouraging.

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

The start is what stops most people.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.