Ideas without action are worthless…
- A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. ~ John Berry
- A new idea is like a child. It’s easier to conceive than to deliver. ~ Ted Koysis
- A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. ~ Marcel Proust
- Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ~ Robert Half
- An idea is a putting truth in check-mate. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
- An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. ~ Richard Bach
- An idea is something that won’t work unless you do. ~ Thomas A. Edison
- An idea is the only level which moves the world. ~ Arthur F. Corey
- Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! ~ Les Brown
- Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ~ E. L. Simpson
- Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~ C. O. Jackson
- Great ideas originate in the muscles. ~ Thomas A. Edison
- Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people. ~ Tobias S. Gibson
- Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. ~ Paul Valery
- Ideas are a dime a dozen, they are worthless; but people who put their ideas into action are priceless. ~ Author Unknown
- Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. ~ Midge Decter
- Ideas are, in truth, force. ~ Henry James
- Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ~ Arnold H. Glasgow
- Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. ~ Don Marquis
- Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- Ideas won’t work unless you do. ~ Author Unknown
- If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~ Raymond Inmon
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France
- It takes a single idea and a single action to move the world. ~ Author Unknown
- Labor gives birth to ideas. ~ Jim Rohn
- Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person. ~ Author Unknown
- Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work. ~ Author Unknown
- Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. ~ Sidney J. Harris
- Take up one idea and act on it. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea and leave all other ideas alone. This is the way to success. ~ Author Unknown
- The clash of ideas brings forth the spark of truth. ~ Australian Proverb
- The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. ~ Lady Bird Johnson
- The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions. ~ Thomas J. Vilord
- The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. ~ Eric Hoffer
- The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~ Chinese Proverb
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it. ~ Thomas A. Edison
- There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. ~ John H. Vincent
- There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. ~ James R. Smith
- To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action. ~ Virginia Woolf
- Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. ~ Author Unknown
- Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. ~ David Seabury
- We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. ~ Maxwell Maltz
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