Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Howard Aiken

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Hodges, Job E.

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.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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

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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 not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Victor Hugo

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bunche, Ralph

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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