Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

William O. Douglas

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Beecher, Henry Ward

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Pound, Ezra

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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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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

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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

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

Mason, Ken

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.