Inspire-U-2-Have-Ideas

Inspirational Quotations Addressing the "Waypower" Component of Hope

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.  

- Howard Aiken  

Eureka! I've got it.  

- Archimedes  

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.  

- Richard Bach  

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.  

- Francis Bacon  

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.  

- Bernard M Baruch  

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

- John Berry  

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

- Henry Block  

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

- Christian Nevell Bovee  

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

- Sir William Bragg  

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

- Dorothea Brande  

It is useless to send armies against ideas.  

- George Brandes  

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.  

- P W Bridgman  

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

- Les Brown  

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.  

- Ron Brown  

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

- Ralph Bunche  

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.  

- Mona Caird  

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?  

- Dale Carnegie  

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.  

- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort  

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

- Alain Chartier  

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.  

- Arthur C Clarke  

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.  

- David H Comins  

An idea is the only level which moves the world.  

- Arthur F Corey  

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

- Cotvos  

Ideas are the roots of creation.  

- Ernest Dimnet  

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  

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.  

- Fyodor Dostoevski  

Great ideas originate in the muscles.  

- Thomas A Edison  

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.  

- Thomas A Edison  

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

- Thomas A Edison  

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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

- Morris L Ernst  

You have to hatch ideas, and then hitch them.  

- Ray D Everson  

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.  

- Charles Fillmore  

Ideas control the world.  

- James A Garfield  

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

- Tobias S Gibson  

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.  

- Andre Gide  

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.  

- Arnold H Glasgow  

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

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.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

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.  

- Bob Grinde  

Ideas move fast when their time comes.  

- Carolyn Heilbrun  

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

- Napoleon Hill  

Ideas, they have the power.  

- Napoleon Hill  

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

- Job E Hodges  

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes  

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes  

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes  

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

- Doug Horton  

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

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

- Victor Hugo  

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

- Victor Hugo  

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.  

- C O Jackson  

Ideas are, in truth, force.  

- Henry James  

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.  

- William James  

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.  

- William James  

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.  

- Barry Jones  

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.  

- John Kane  

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

- Thomas F Kennedy  

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

- Charles F Kettering  

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.  

- Ted Koysis  

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.  

- Tuli Kupferberg  

What you need is an idea.  

- William P Lear  

Ideas too are a life and a world.  

- Georg C Lichtenberg  

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.  

- William Lippmann  

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

- David Lynch  

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

- Thomas Mann  

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!  

- Orison Swett Marden  

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

- Jacques Maritain  

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

- Ken Mason  

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...  

- Rod Mckeun  

Long is the road from conception to completion.  

- Molière  

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.  

- Alfred A Montapert  

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

- J Richard Munro  

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.  

- George Nelson  

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.  

- Al Neuharth  

Little words hurt big ideas.  

- Howard W Newton  

Everything begins with an idea.  

- Earl Nightingale  

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.  

- Roger Von Oech  

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.  

- Linus Pauling  

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.  

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps  

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

- Pablo Picasso  

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

- Hyman G Rickover  

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.  

- Irvine Robbins  

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

- Jim Rohn  

Labor gives birth to ideas.  

- Jim Rohn  

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

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery  

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

- Richard Saunders  

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.  

- Robert H Schuller  

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

- E L Simpson  

There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.  

- James R Smith  

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

- Percy Sutton  

It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.  

- Source Unknown  

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.  

- Source Unknown  

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

- Source Unknown  

Ideas won't work unless you do.  

- Source Unknown  

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.  

- Source Unknown  

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.  

- Source Unknown  

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.  

- John H Vincent  

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.  

- Alfred North Whitehead  

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

- Marianne Williamson  

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