Idea Inspirational Quotes

#1. A beautiful idea can give you immortality - not success or money.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Oh, I have just had an idea - after tea I shall attack myself with sandpaper.

Dodie Smith

#3. We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Napoleon Hill

#5. The idea for Twilight came to me in a dream.

Stephenie Meyer

#6. Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#7. Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for

Michael Bassey Johnson

#8. Frances was not only grieving her sister's loss, but also striving to reconcile in her mind the tragedy with the idea of a loving God. Restless and aching, Frances climbed mountains in the Swiss Alps, where their hotel had a view of beautiful Mount Rigi.

Nancy Carpentier Brown

#9. Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Calvin Trillin

#10. No religion with a universal message ... under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad

#11. You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. I believed, with morbid sincerity, that if I could make him my friend, we would together, in some small but consequential way, defy the wicked logic of hate and war, that we, together, would stand as a rebuke to the grotesque idea that our problem was without a solution.

Jeffrey Goldberg

#14. Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!

Ernie J Zelinski

#15. At beyond continent of reality,
there are oceans of ideas.

Toba Beta

#16. Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#17. ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Patrick Ness

#18. An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

Joel Spolsky

#19. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#21. Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

Richie Norton

#22. Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

Donald Clark

#23. The best Evil Plan offers something much more for people
a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

Hugh MacLeod

#24. Brothers - it is not when ones were born by the same mother, brothers - it is when ones were born by the same idea. Kain hadn't a brother. Never.

Pavel Amnuel

#25. The inventor ... looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.

Alexander Graham Bell

#26. What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Ezra Pound

#27. To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.

Kaela Marooney

#28. A drawing begins with 1 line; a story begins with 1 word; a dream begins with 1 idea, and they all die with 1 doubt. Believe in yourself.

Giuseppe Bianco

#29. Sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Cecelia Ahern

#30. My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it's an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren't familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.

Stephen Lovegrove

#31. An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.

M.J. Stoddard

#32. Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.

Sandra Vischer

#33. The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.

John O'Donohue

#34. We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry.
The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software, that's something we brought to computing.
And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Bill Gates

#35. The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

Milan Kundera

#36. When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.

Michael Scheuer

#37. ...for every type of idea someone can have - no matter how weird or strange or gross or out there or disturbing - there is at least one person out there who enjoys that kind of idea, and the best part is seeing a book work its way to that person.

Stylo Fantome

#38. When we blindly accept an idea, a thought, or a dogma, we become blind.

Debasish Mridha

#39. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing ...

Thomas A. Edison

#40. If all you do is run every time, stop for a minute and take a glance at your back; you may have an idea of what you've been running from

Eve Lee Myself

#41. The power of an idea whose time has come is really the power of Spirit at work. Equality for all is how God is, for instance, and we seek to be like God. When enough of us, along with one or two at visionary consciousness, begin to contemplate these in-Spirit ideas, they can't be stopped.

Wayne W. Dyer

#42. When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

Robin Hobb

#43. Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Richard Branson

#44. If you want something new, then come up with a new idea and take action.

Debasish Mridha

#45. I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

#46. I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes
I hear angels sing.

Carrie Fisher

#47. when we conceive an idea, we don't just look anymore but we see. People without a well defined vision look; men with a focused purpose look and they see.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#48. A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration.

Roshan Kolar

#49. 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

#50. It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#51. If we have no idea what we believe in, we'll go along with anything. Truth takes courage. Courage to stand up for what we believe in. Not necessarily in a confrontational way, but in a gentle yet firm way. Like an oak tree, able to sway gently in the wind, but strongly rooted to the ground.

A.C. Ping

#52. But you know what? Peace is just an idea. There will never be peace on Earth, at least, not the kind of kumbaya-harmony people envision. There can be ceasefires and treaties, but we will never know true peace. That's the sad truth of the world.

June Gray

#53. I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down.

Chip Wilson

#54. Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Slash Coleman

#55. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Holms

#56. The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#57. I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could be as odiously condescendign or downright brutal as one likes, yet with whom one lived as intimately as family.

Robyn Davidson

#58. The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#59. Stretched by an idea,
we can aspire to new heights,
new ways of thinking.

J. Benson

#60. Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling.
But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.

Mark Batterson

#61. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

Michael Bassey Johnson

#62. Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.

Eraldo Banovac

#63. Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

Jane Kang

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

John F. Kennedy

#65. She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars.

And really, that was enough.

Melissa Landers

#66. Tip #4
Skinny-dip at will!

(Idea)
When single boast about finding your inner most happy place and hold on to it Odds are once married you can kiss personal space Good-Bye.

Hazel Cartwright

#67. Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.

Abhijit Naskar

#68. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#69. In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing.

Ian McEwan

#70. Becoming an Earth Citizen means that you are breaking out of a self-imposed idea of who you are and embracing the broader reality of who you truly are.

Ilchi Lee

#71. A great idea will never amount to anything ... if you don't ever put it into action.

Timothy Pina

#72. Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.

Robert Dieffenbach

#73. That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis
an idea
and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Esther Hicks

#74. I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my protection - but I do love their silent hour, which in my case invariably evolved into a self-scouring meditation on the idea that the busy life is not the full life.

Michael Perry

#75. Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

Damien Rice

#76. Nothing great happens without a great idea.

Debasish Mridha

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

William James

#78. Never reject an idea because it will create conflict!

Syed Ather

#79. An idea means nothing. It is the execution that makes it great.

K.N. Lee

#80. I'm quiet for a moment, enchanted by the idea of something stealing over you, settling into you, and telling you, with absolute certainty, who you are and what you're meant to do.

Virginia Boecker

#81. The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Richie Norton

#82. Ladies, most of you have no idea how beautiful you are. Don't let mean words from an insecure soul blind you from the truth of your beauty. You are beautiful by design ... just the way you are.

Steve Maraboli

#83. It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

Joe Hill

#84. The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

Richard Flanagan

#85. Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

Laurie Davidson

#86. Peace will not occur magically because one or two individuals awaken to the truth of the nature of harmony and order. Peace will only prosper when the principle of harmonious order becomes common sense rather than a novel idea.

Ilchi Lee

#87. When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.

Gary Hopkins

#88. And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly the one which offered itself to me. And what I saw was more like a crumbling, a frenzied collapsing of all that had always protected me from all I was always condemned to be.

Samuel Beckett

#89. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

Max Gray

#90. Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.

Armstrong Sperry

#91. If you want to be a radical theologian, you have to be able to say, "I have no idea what is going on." That's being a radical theologian.

Art Hochberg

#92. A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you.

Debasish Mridha

#93. At some point we have to be able to say, "I have no idea what is going on." Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder if that's the whole trip, so that we can actually know what's going on. Hmmmmmmmm.

Art Hochberg

#94. The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Carl Rogers

#95. Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea

Bruce Budden

#96. If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

Nadia Comaneci

#97. Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.

Neale Donald Walsch

#98. He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

John Steinbeck

#99. There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.

Frederick Lenz

#100. He craved an idea, inspired yet concrete, that would show a clear path and change the world for the better, an idea as unmistakable to a child or an ignorant fool as lightning or a roll of thunder. He craved for something new.

Boris Pasternak