Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Simpson, E. L.

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

2.

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

Hodges, Job E.

3.

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

Walter Bagehot

4.

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

Hortense Calisher

5.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

6.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

7.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

8.

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

9.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Avery, Milton

13.

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

Emile Chartier

14.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

15.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

16.

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

17.

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

Munro, J. Richard

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Trotsky, Leon

22.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

23.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

24.

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

25.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

28.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

29.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

30.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

31.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.