Best 115 quotes in «momentum quotes» category

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

A river is easier to channel than to stop.

Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.

If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but it's left on its own it means nothing. If it’s joined by another word it could start to gather momentum. Now if several words are placed together creating meaning and then sprinkled with soul one could have developed purpose. Look into that purpose and you may find the writer.

Hope floats but effort propels.

Image is everything. You don’t spare any expense to create the right image. And word of mouth is critical. Once you get a good reputation, momentum will carry you.

It takes a leader to create the momentum, it takes a vision to direct the momentum, it takes a massive action to build on the momentum, and it takes self-discipline to sustain the momentum. Momentum is the bridge between a vision and its results.

Instead of talking about what you wish to do, start doing it. Take action towards your dreams.

It's very simple; just look at your life to see where you're heading. You're always in a momentum of something.

I've always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves so deeply he had to run away from it. But I've never had a choice. No one has ever asked me. Each summer, my father's momentum dragged us all home.

people say life is short. life's not short—it's long. the memory of a human being: that's what's short.

Momentum builds success.

There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an inner energy; a 'motor' driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately... come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer - worldly - energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages - right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together - blended, combined and re-entwined - motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just 'self' serving but enriching to all humanity and societies...just as it should be.

People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.

Micromanagement is the destroyer of momentum.

The BIG push means being able to develop and sustain momentum toward your goal; it is the process of actively replacing excuses with winning habits, the ultimate excuses blockers. Moreover, it is being willing to go to the wall for what you want or believe in, to push beyond your previous mental and physical limits, no matter what it takes.

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones

The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.

Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.

A dunk is nice because it can create momentum, but it's not as good as scoring a touchdown.

When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum.

Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.

As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

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

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress

As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.

But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum

Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.

GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.