Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Lynch, David

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

Koysis, Ted

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jim Hightower

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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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Avery, Milton

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

Marquis, Don

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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 good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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