Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sutton, Percy

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Cotvos

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Emile Chartier

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

Marquis, Don

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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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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 lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Brown, Les

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Avery, Milton

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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