If you want to get somewhere, you need to start moving. And sometimes that’s easier said than done.
Momentum is key: it keeps us going when we’re feeling low and encourages us to take risks. That’s why we’ve gathered some of our favorite quotes about momentum to help increase your velocity on your journey. So read on and let these inspiring words motivate you to keep moving forward!
Quotes About Momentum
Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.
Brian Tracy
Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going.
Ben Nicholas
The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum.
Tony Robbins
Commitment is the ignitor of momentum.
Peggy Wood
Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.
Gil Penchina
When you’re that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can’t really tell whether you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.
Annie Lennox
For any movement to gain momentum, one must start with a small action.
Adam Braun
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda
Success is like a snowball, it takes momentum to build and the more you get in the right direction the bigger it gets.
Steve Ferrante
Momentum solves 80% of your problems.
John C. Maxwell
The rate of change of momentum of a body over time is directly proportional to the force applied, and occurs in the same direction as the applied force.
Sir Isaac Newton
Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.
Earl Weaver
Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum.
Nikita Koloff
Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.
Joe Rogan
All you have to do is bring the momentum and initiate.
John C. Maxwell
Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.
Charles J. Givens
Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
Ikue Mori
More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.
Nancy Birdsall
While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.
John C. Maxwell
One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.
Ralph Marston
Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick.
Sara Genn
Our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.
Lisa McMann
Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart. Michael Connelly 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.
Annea Lockwood
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving.
Conrad Hilton
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed.
Tony Robbins
Don’t get bogged down with all the details of how it’s going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
Brian J. White
Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.
Nick Vujicic
There is something about the momentum and travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
Bill Bryson
To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.
Donald Trump
We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
Bill Vaughan
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
Forward momentum. That’s my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
Gayle Forman
Things aren’t always easy, but you just have to keep going and don’t let the small stuff bog you down.
Stella Maeve.
I’m pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it’s only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
James Rollins
The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.
Steve Pavlina
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear John Updike 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.
Farshad Asl
When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.
Suzy Kassem
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
Aldous Huxley
Success is like a lightning bolt. It’ll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going.
Michelle Phan
I’ve got forward momentum. There’s no virtue in it. It’s just a balancing act. I don’t dare stop.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Actions kills procrastination and creates momentum to keep yourself motivated to keep moving ahead.
Dani Johnson
Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum step by step every time you try it.
Jeffrey Gitomer
A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.
Darren Criss.
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
Marlon Brando
When you focus your attention on your intention you gain momentum.
David Shoup
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!
Peter de Jager
The only thing to bring momentum that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that build momentum advance their overall purpose in life.
John C. Maxwell
As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum but also the pressure you need to feel either friction or fulfillment.
Marcus Buckingham
Inertia and depression are linked. They tend to stick together. Blast them both with positive momentum
LeAura Alderson
The rhythm of daily action aligned with your goals creates the momentum that separates dreamers from super-achievers.
Darren Hardy
A deadline combined with goal-oriented action creates momentum.
Devani Anjali Alderson
Knowing that things are going to slow down in the future, no matter what, that allows me to work hard now, make hay while the sun is shining and knowing that – while momentum is rolling – we have to hit it hard.
Granger Smith
Just give it a go and momentum will take you the rest of the way.
Joe Wicks
You do your best, and you move forward. The key is to see the forward momentum and not beat yourself up about how it could have been better.
Jane Park
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.
Pamela Glass Kelly
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum.
Aimee Mullins
A year from now you may wish you had the momentum of starting today.
Karen Lamb
When your momentum’s going, that’s when people really want to get to know about you.
David Ortiz
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.
Eckhart Tolle
Momentum is a whole lot in the game of basketball. People dwell on momentum.
John Wall
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers. A bit of momentum, and we’re going to see amazing things from them.
Becky Lynch
I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.
Hermann Maier
What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Tony Robbins
One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series.
Kobe Bryant
It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
Ben Stokes
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base. You don’t lose your momentum.
Pete Rose
We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to. We’ve got to get into that rhythm every game.
Brian Brohm
You have to believe in yourself and keep up the momentum when no one else does — that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
There are times when you’re not in control, but that is tennis and you have
Momentum
changing in every single match.
Samantha Stosur
When I put Fight together, I wanted to maintain the momentum.
Rob Halford
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone.
Goerge W. Bush
The smallest gaffe when the momentum is against you is a disaster.
Ed Miliband
As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically.
Xi Jinping
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself.
Hannah Arendt
I put forward a budget of what I called middle-class economics that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.
Barack Obama
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to always make changes once the story is out of the headlines.
Sheri Fink
There is no leash on power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.
James Bovard
There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.
Mike Johanns
It’s hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray.
Calvin Jillson
A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a ‘downhill thrust’ easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.
Warren E. Burger
The debate was a chance for senator Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into 2016.
Melissa Harris-Perry
The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.
James Hansen
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.
George C. Marshall
Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum.
Rachel Vincent
while attempting to make a decision.
Andy Grove
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility of weakening asset values in financial markets.
Alan Greenspan
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion.
Erica Jong
Remember your dreams and fight for them.
Paulo Coelho
The perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
Alan Autry
Always keep momentum, it’s this prime directive for managing a startup.
Sam Altman
It’s fine to celebrate momentum of success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision gives you momentum.
Steve Jobs
Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.
Dave Ramsey
A river is easier to channel than to stop.
Brandon Sanderson
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future… your own hope…your own love.
Bradley Whitford
What’s most important is that you just start creating. Even if you don’t know what you’ll create or where it will end up, Just start. There is power in momentum.
LeAura Alderson
Don’t overthink things. Do. Action generates perspective that leads to clarity.
LeAura Alderson
The choices you make and the actions you take determine your direction daily.
LeAura Alderson
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
We must be aware that momentum born of old habits and destructive behaviors might be momentum, but it’s momentum slammed into reverse.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
There’s this gap between inspiration or motivation and actual implementation.
Rich Roll
Over time, the momentum of your consistency creates the friction needed for progress against the gravity of inertia.
LeAura Alderson
Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going.
Anne Sweeney
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
William Hutchison Murray
If I don’t yet want it badly enough, then every obstacle can derail me. If I’m committed, then nothing can.
LeAura Alderson
Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.
Ryan Lilly
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Martha Graham
To ebb at creating can be to flow at something else.
LeAura Alderson
Good habits replace effort. Daily doing creates effortless flow.
LeAura Alderson
Create daily and your work will soar.
LeAura Alderson
Daily action, is how momentum is built. Add vision, goals and learning to your doing, and you will be unstoppable.
Devani Alderson
Creating daily sets the rhythm of the creative life.
LeAura Alderson
The rhythm of daily action aligned with your goals creates the momentum that separates dreamers from super-achievers .
Darren Hardy
The seeds of success are planted in the soil of daily toil.
LeAura Alderson
Never underestimate the power of a moment to contribute to the success of your day. Carpe Momentum!
LeAura Alderson
It is in the momentum of creating daily that we learn how to create more, and how much more we can create.
LeAura Alderson
Be the river ever determined to reach the shores of your dreams.
LeAura Alderson
Move forward, with generosity… with a willingness to live with the tension. Move forward, learning as you go. The person who fails the most, wins.
Seth Godin
Take action first in whatever activities that come along in your life. Do not wait until you get interested or motivated to do them. That will follow later on. Action precedes motivation.
Susan Noonan
Clients suffering burnout… need to take straightforward, practical steps to restore their overall health: eat better, exercise more, and improve their sleep habits.
Margaret Wehrenberg
Inertia and depression are linked. They tend to stick together. Blast them both with positive momentum.
LeAura Alderson
Will power is about making a decision. Mind power is about creating an outcome.
LeAura Alderson
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Clear goals increase persistence and self efficacy, making individuals less susceptible to the undermining effects of anxiety, disappointment, and frustration.
D.H. Schunk
What keeps me going is goals.
Muhammad Ali
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
To fulfill the definition and meaning of life we must remain ever growing and ever flowing into new levels and experience.
LeAura Alderson
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Holly Near
Momentum is a fragile force. It’s worst enemy: procrastination. It’s best friend: a deadline.
Tom Peters
Momentum has power.
LeAura Alderson
Bad ideas, good ideas, it’s not yours to judge until later. Right now your only job is to produce.
Seth Godin
Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want, you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don’t know. I’ve forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn’t matter, so long as you move.
Ayn Rand
We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
William Ford Gibson
When you’re that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can’t really tell whether you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.
Annie Lennox
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
Brian Tracy
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton
Visioning directs consciousness and sets quantum matter in motion. The more conscious the effort, the greater the motion.
LeAura Alderson
Often the only difference between winning and losing is momentum.
John C. Maxwell
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford
A Final Word
Momentum is a powerful thing. As you can see from these quotes about momentum, it can be the driving force behind success or failure. It’s important to keep your momentum going in the right direction and not let yourself get bogged down by negative thoughts or emotions.
What are some of the things that help you stay motivated and moving forward? Leave a comment below and share your tips with us!
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