Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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 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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Lynch, David

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mason, Ken

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Anatole France

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Marquis, Don

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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