Motivational Quotes

Ideas

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that 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

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Hugo, Victor

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.