Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proust, Marcel

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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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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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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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

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Avery, Milton

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Mann, Thomas

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Niblack, Griff

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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.