Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Jim Hightower

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Anatole France

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

Berry, John

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De