Top 40 Quotes About Ideas (2024 Update)

1. “Everything begins with an idea.”

— Earl Nightingale

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2. “Ideas without action are useless.”

— Helen Keller

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3. “Ideas come from curiosity.”

— Walt Disney

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4. “Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.”

— Malcolm X

5. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

— William Golding

6. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

— Scott Belsky

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7. “A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.”

— Nikola Tesla

8. “Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.”

— John Doerr

9. “Poor minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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10. “Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.”

— Abdul Kalam

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11. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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12. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

— Nikola Tesla

13. “Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

14. “To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.”

— Derek Sivers

15. “One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.”

— Tim Ferriss

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16. “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”

— Josh Billings

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17. “Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.”

— Napoleon

18. “Ideas are bulletproof.”

— Alan Moore

19. “A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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20. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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21. “The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.”

— Nikola Tesla

22. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”

— Mary Kay Ash

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23. “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

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24. “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

— Marie Curie

25. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”

— Bruce Lee

26. “Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”

— Scott Adams

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27. “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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28. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”

— Bruce Lee

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29. “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”

— Paul Farmer

30. “Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

31. “Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.”

— Oswald Chambers

32. “People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

33. “Ideas do not exist separately from language.”

— Karl Marx

34. “The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.”

— Les Brown

35. “The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

— Carl Sagan

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36. “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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37. “The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong – just a sense of open heart and open mind.”

— Pema Chödrön

38. “My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive inside all of you. I always knew that, and I think you did too. Because it is not a band- it is an idea.”

— Gerard Way

39. “Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.”

— Frida Kahlo

40. “It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.”

— George A. Sheehan