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“Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.”

People Firsts Together Objects Commitment Overcoming Inertia

Book:The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

“Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.”

Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

“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.”

Men Needs Nations Dark Race Impossible Weak Overcoming India Heavy Foolish Demon Idle Doomed Extinction Saying No Inertia Lifeless

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.”

“To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.”

Ends Creative Mass Overcoming Slavery Faculty Inertia

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.”

Has Beens Hard Military Overcoming Size Operations Inertia Initiate Military Operations

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“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.”

May Important Action Energy Goal Principles Amount Overcoming Keep Going Momentum Inertia Activate

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.”

Helping Habit Opposites Overcoming Overcoming Fear Inertia

Author:Seth Godin

“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”

Ifs Way Seems Together Lines Events Overcoming Novelty Inertia Striking Out

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

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

Inspirational Motivational Failing Failure Overcoming Addiction New Beginnings Inertia Starting A New Beginning

Author:W. Clement Stone