20 Idea Quotes to Inspire More Ideas from You

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1. 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. -Swami Vivekananda 

2. Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. -Napoleon Hill 

3. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. -George Bernard Shaw 

4. The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. -Elbert Hubbard 

5. Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. -Bern Williams 

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

7. There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea: by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware. -Francis A. Cartier 

8. Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. -Nolan Bushnell 

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

10. 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 

11. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. - Alfred North Whitehead 

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

13. You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. - Lee Iacocca 

14. Everything begins with an idea. - Earl Nightengale 

15. Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. - William J. Cameron 

16. Ideas come from everything. - Alfred Hitchcock

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

18. For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope. - Albert Einstein

 19. We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. - Maxwell Maltz

 20. Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them. And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them. - David J. Schwartz