Motivational Quotes

Ideas

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

2.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

3.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

4.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

5.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

6.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

7.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

8.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

9.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

10.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

11.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

12.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

14.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

15.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

16.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

17.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

18.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

19.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

20.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

22.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

23.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

24.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

26.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

27.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

28.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

29.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

30.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

31.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

33.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

34.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

36.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

38.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

39.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

40.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

42.

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

43.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

44.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

45.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

46.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

47.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

48.

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

49.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

50.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.