Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Victor Hugo

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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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 are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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.

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Emile Chartier

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Anatole France

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Berry, John

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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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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.