Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Sutton, Percy

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Avery, Milton

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Jim Hightower

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Mann, Thomas

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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 are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Anatole France

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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