Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Chartier, Alain

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

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

Howard Aiken

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

Rohn, Jim

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

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proust, Marcel

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

John Steinbeck

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Lynch, David

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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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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

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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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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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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 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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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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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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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Munro, J. Richard