Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Niblack, Griff

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Victor Hugo

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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 a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Horton, Doug

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Anatole France

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.