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.

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

Munro, J. Richard

2.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

3.

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

Sutton, Percy

4.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

5.

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

Anatole France

6.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

7.

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

Bunche, Ralph

8.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

9.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

13.

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

Koysis, Ted

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

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

Frost, Robert

17.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

18.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

19.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

20.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

21.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

22.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

25.

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

Townsend, Robert

26.

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

Hortense Calisher

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

29.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

30.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

31.

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

32.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

33.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

38.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Picasso, Pablo

42.

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

Berry, John

43.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

44.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.