Quotes About Momentum

The only menace is inertia.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

He'd jolt up in bed every morning, sit quietly for a moment, and you could feel those wheels spinning in his mind as he planned his day. Then he'd hit the floor almost on the run.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

He gets a good hold on the paintbrush, then confidently has the ladder removed.

The cure for grief is motion.

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

The present is all you have for your certain possession.

The present is the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where.

The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

The first step binds one to the second.

Her body arched backward so forcefully that he almost lost her to the sea. He was so startled by her sudden

go, he thought. Shooting across

The only warning he gave the cop as he winged the first two-hundred-pound crate out of the building was, "Brace yourself, Effie.

Morning is coming." Just like a freight train.

One of my rules was to get out when the volatility and the momentum became absolutely insane.

When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time.