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

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Victor Hugo

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

John Steinbeck

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Marquis, Don

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Hodges, Job E.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Howard Aiken

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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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 new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim