Idea Quotes

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

Life, Success, Alone

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Society, Law

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

God, Power, Emotional

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Buddha

Two, Unity, Binary

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

Democracy, Master, Slave

Idea Quote

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy

May, Die, Lives

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

Travel, Laugh, May

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

Person, Until, Crank

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

Women, Men, Used

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee

Fool, Off, Glory

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

Happiness, True, Through

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

Dangerous, Unworthy

Idea Quote

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

Mind, May, Through

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill

Time, Same, Eye

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Time, Truth, Live

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Heart, Brain, Through

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

Death, Together, Two

Paris is always a good idea.
Audrey Hepburn

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby

Education, Good, Sex

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Life, Long, Next

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Accept, Voice

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

Others, Wonderful, Whole

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow

Life, Beauty, Great

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Time, Powerful, Whose

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela

Good, End, Leader

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

Mind, State, Physical

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

Good, Sometimes, Door

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

Failure, Him, Son

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
Marilyn Monroe

Time, Woman, Night

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