Motivational Quotes

Ideas

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

- Sir Frederick G. Banting

Best Quotes about Ideas

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Howard Aiken

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

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Emile Chartier

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Berry, John

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

Horton, Doug

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Hyman Rickover

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

William O. Douglas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Hugo, Victor

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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

John Steinbeck

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon