Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Bunche, Ralph

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Saunders, Richard

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown, Les

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Anatole France

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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

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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