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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Sutton, Percy

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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

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

Jim Hightower

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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 putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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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 pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Picasso, Pablo

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