Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Berry, John

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

2.

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

Marquis, Don

3.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

4.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

5.

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

Jim Hightower

6.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

7.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

8.

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

9.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

10.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

11.

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

12.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

13.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

14.

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

Trotsky, Leon

15.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

16.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

17.

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

18.

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

Penny, A. Owen

19.

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

Townsend, Robert

20.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

21.

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.

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

28.

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

29.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

30.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

31.

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

Rostand, Jean

32.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

John Steinbeck

34.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Hodges, Job E.

36.

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

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

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

Howard Aiken

39.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

40.

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

Emile Chartier

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

43.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

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

Saunders, Richard

47.

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

William O. Douglas

48.

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

Simpson, E. L.

49.

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

Picasso, Pablo

50.

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