Inertia

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-powe...

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an objec...

Robin Wasserman

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

Mary Parker Follett