Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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.

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

William O. Douglas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Marquis, Don

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Chartier, Alain

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Hugo, Victor

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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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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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano