Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Ideas

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Emile Chartier

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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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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... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What you need is an idea.