Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

2.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

3.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

4.

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

5.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

6.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

7.

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

Hyman Rickover

8.

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

Picasso, Pablo

9.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

10.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

11.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

14.

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

Maritain, Jacques

15.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

16.

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

Sutton, Percy

17.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Saunders, Richard

25.

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.

26.

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.

27.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

28.

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

Townsend, Robert

29.

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

Proust, Marcel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Rostand, Jean

33.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

34.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

35.

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

36.

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

Penny, A. Owen

37.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

38.

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

Hortense Calisher

39.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

40.

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

Koysis, Ted

41.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

42.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

43.

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

Cotvos

44.

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

Avery, Milton

45.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

46.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

47.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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.

49.

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.

50.

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

P. B. Medawar