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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Williamson, Marianne

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Hugo, Victor

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Einstein, Albert

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas 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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Eliot, George

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Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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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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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Jim Hightower

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

Hyman Rickover

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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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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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell