Ideas Quotes and Sayings


A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
Victor Hugo

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon Hill

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde

Good ideas are common - what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about.
Ashleigh Brilliant

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.
Dr. Linus Pauling

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas Alva Edison

All great ideas are dangerous.
Oscar Wilde

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A Edison

Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale

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

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

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

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
Swami Vivekananda

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Dorothy Thompson

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman G. Rickover

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

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