Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Everson, Ray D.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Jim Hightower

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Chartier, Alain

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'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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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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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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Anatole France

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.