Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

2.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

3.

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

4.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

6.

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

7.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

9.

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

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

John Steinbeck

12.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

15.

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

Victor Hugo

16.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

17.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

18.

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

Bunche, Ralph

19.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

20.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

22.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

23.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

24.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

25.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

26.

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

27.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

28.

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

Hyman Rickover

29.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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

31.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

32.

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

33.

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

34.

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

35.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

36.

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

37.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

38.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

39.

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

40.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

41.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

42.

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

Brande, Dorothea

43.

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