Inertia

(107 votes)   Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(104 votes)   Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Sir Isaac Newton
1642-1727, British Scientist, Mathematician

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(98 votes)   Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(81 votes)   The great thing is the start -- to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer -- and him for nothing.

Robert Collier
American Writer, Publisher

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(72 votes)   The first step is the hardest.

Marie De Vichy-Chamrond

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(71 votes)   Once you're moving you can keep moving.

Ronald Alan Weiss

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(70 votes)   Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

Samuel Beckett
1906-1989, Irish Dramatist, Novelist

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(67 votes)   You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Ben Stein
American Professor, Writer

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(65 votes)   The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

W. Clement Stone
1902-, American Businessman, Author

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(64 votes)   Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.

J. G. Gallimore

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