Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Walter Bagehot

2.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

3.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

4.

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

Penny, A. Owen

5.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

7.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.

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

Brown, Les

9.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

11.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

12.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

13.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

14.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

15.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Horton, Doug

17.

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

Howard Aiken

18.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

19.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

20.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

22.

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

23.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

25.

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

Victor Hugo

26.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

27.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Brande, Dorothea

30.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Munro, J. Richard

35.

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

Niblack, Griff

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

40.

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

Rorty, Richard

41.

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

42.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

45.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.