Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ernst, Morris L.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Berry, John

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rorty, Richard

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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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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

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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.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Hill, Napoleon