Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Block, Henry

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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Frost, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Anatole France

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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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

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Avery, Milton