Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Cotvos

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Anatole France

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

Berry, John

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg 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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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Jim Hightower

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

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Mann, Thomas

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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