Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lynch, David

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

Sutton, Percy

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Rohn, Jim

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Berry, John

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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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

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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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

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

Howard Aiken

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Brown, Les

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Hugo, Victor

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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