Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

3.

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

Hortense Calisher

4.

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

Hodges, Job E.

5.

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

Williamson, Marianne

6.

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

7.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

8.

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

Munro, J. Richard

9.

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

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

12.

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

13.

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

14.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

15.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

16.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

17.

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

Brande, Dorothea

18.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

19.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

21.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

22.

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

Avery, Milton

23.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

24.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

25.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

26.

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

Howard Aiken

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

34.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

35.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

36.

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

37.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

38.

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

39.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

40.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

44.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

45.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

46.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.