Quotes About Momentum

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.

Teams go on runs. We have to be able to withstand a run and not get down on ourselves.

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

In football, things happen so quickly.

Things happen fast. That's this league. You can't slow down, because it's going.

The basic principle is that the very things that can be your downfall in life can be used to raise yourself. If you simply change your perspective, what is down can be up. What is a downward chute can be used as an upward process. Whatever draws you into compulsive nature, you use that to become conscious. You use that momentum to grow.

The Law of the Few says that there are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. The lesson of stickiness is the same. There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up.

A rock thrown in the air gains nothing by going up and nothing by falling down

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

But perhaps it is too late for that. You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

I have been falling for months. I have been falling into my own life, for months. And I am about to hit it now.

On writer's block: The word block suggests that you are constipated or stuck, when the truth is that you're empty.

If you're trying to succeed in a job or a relationship or at a task, you're either moving forward, falling behind, or standing still. There are only three choices. To