Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Brown, Les

2.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

3.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

4.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

5.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

6.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

7.

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

Penny, A. Owen

8.

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

9.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

10.

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

Avery, Milton

11.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

12.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

13.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

14.

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

15.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

16.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

17.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

18.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

20.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

21.

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

22.

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

Berry, John

23.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

25.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

27.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

28.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

29.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

32.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

33.

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

Williamson, Marianne

34.

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

Sutton, Percy

35.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

37.

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

38.

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

39.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

41.

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

42.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.