Ideas Quotes

"Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do. They don’t know what they want because they don’t know what’s available to them."
Zig Ziglar

What are your ideas? What are you really good at? What do you want to change?"
Wendy Hearn, from Use Your Unique Abilities to Shake The World

"You need your employees to speak up and speak out! They are the ones closest to your front line and they are the ones who often have the best ideas as they are closest to your customer."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Why All This Talk of Coaching Rather Than Managing?

"An idea gets us interested, but a dream gets us excited."
David DeNotaris

"To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach."
W. Clement Stone

"Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities."
Norman Vincent Peale

"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain

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

"Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough."
Charles F. Kettering

"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
Robert Half

"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward.
They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller

"Share knowledge and ideas
Tell someone about a great book that you read so they can benefit from it too. Teach a new concept or idea that you've learned."
Steve Brunkhorst

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."
Anthony Robbins

"The idea is simple. You do something good for other people. These people cannot 'repay' you... They are encouraged to pay-it-forward."
Nisandeh Neta, from DIFFERENT NEW-YEAR'S RESOLUTION - Pass-It-Forward

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

"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
Napoleon Hill

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo

"Ideas are the root of creation."
Ernest Dimnet

"Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people."
Hyman Rickover

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

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."
Thomas J. Watson, Sr

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and act."
Maxwell Maltz

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

"An idea can turn to dust or magic,
depending on the talent that rubs against it."
William Bernbach

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. "
Alfred Nobel