Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Avery, Milton

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Penny, A. Owen

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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

William O. Douglas

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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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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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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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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