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Motivational Inertia Quotes

May these quotes about Inertia inspire and motivate you.

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Related topics: Motivational Positive

Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi


 

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)

It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson

An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln

I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil.
But no matter how necessary,
it is always an evil, never a good.
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead

One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons


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