Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mann, Thomas

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

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

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Frost, Robert

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

William O. Douglas

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Rostand, Jean

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