Ideas & Imagination Quotes

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.- Thomas Edison

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.- Brian Tracy

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
- Napoleon Hill

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. - Pablo Picasso

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them....- Thomas Edison

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.- Vincent Van Gogh

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.- Thomas Edison

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.- Pablo Picasso

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 Edison

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.- Thomas Edison

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

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas.- George Bernard Shaw

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.- Thomas Edison

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.- Pablo Picasso

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.- Aristotle

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
- Napoleon Hill

Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.
- Alexander Graham Bell

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
- Napoleon Hill

Posession of anything begins in the mind.- Bruce Lee

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
- Robert Collier

The man who has no imagination has no wings.- Muhammad Ali

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.- Henry Ford

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.- Nelson Mandela

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.- Henry Ford

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.- Alexander Graham Bell

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Time Quotes

Don't count the days, make the days count.- Muhammad Ali

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.- Napoleon Hill

Either you run the day or the day runs you.- Jim Rohn

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.- Bruce Lee

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.- Henry Ford

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.- Leonardo Da Vinci

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas. - Brian Tracy

Remember that time is money.- Benjamin Franklin

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.
- Richard Wayne Bandler

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.- Albert Einstein

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.- Thomas Edison

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.- Thomas Edison

The time is always right to do what is right.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There will be sleeping enough in the Grave.- Benjamin Franklin

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time ain't for wastin', no there's no time for that.- Jimmy Buffett

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.- Jim Rohn

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.- Jim Rohn

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.- Thomas Edison

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.- Albert Einstein

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.- Thomas Edison

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.- Thomas Edison

The time is always right to do what is right.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time ain't for wastin', no there's no time for that.- Jimmy Buffett

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.- Jim Rohn

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.- Jim Rohn

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.- Thomas Edison

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter Drucker

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.- Leonardo Da Vinci

We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa

You may delay, but time will not.- Benjamin Franklin

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Commitment Quotes

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.- Tom Flores

A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises. - Unknown Author
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.- Bill Cosby

As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.- Dan Millman

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.- Imre Lakatos

Commitment doesn’t mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.- Susan Jeffers

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
- Anon

Commitment turns a promise into reality with words that speak boldly of your intentions and actions that speak louder than words.- Steve Brunkhorst

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.- James Womack

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.- Mario Andretti

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.- E. Joseph Cossman

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?- Nelson Mandela

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.- Bill Gates

I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?- Harvey Fierstein

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.- Lou Holtz

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
- Denis Waitley

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.- Peter Drucker

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.- Charles Buxton

Stay committed to your decisions; but stay flexible in your approach.Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.
- Brian Tracy - Tom Robbins

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.- Mack R. Douglas

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.- Stephen R. Covey

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.- Zig Ziglar

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.- Vince Lombardi

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doub- Dr. Rollo May

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.- Ken Blanchard

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.- Peter Drucker

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.- Woody Hayes

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.- Scott O'Grady

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Money and Wealth Quotes

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.- Henry Ford

A penny saved is a penny earned.- Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.- Benjamin Franklin

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses. - Jim Rohn

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.- Ray Kroc

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.- Benjamin Franklin

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.- Henry Ford

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.- Woody Allen

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.- Brian Tracy

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.- Henry Ford

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.- Aristotle

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.- George Bernard Shaw

There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of what's going on inside of you.- T. Harv Eker

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.- Muhammad Ali

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.- Plato

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.- Henry Ford

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
- Jim Rohn

Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do!- T. Harv Eker

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.- Benjamin Franklin

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.- Donald Trump

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.- Zig Ziglar

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.- Zig Ziglar

One could rely on people’s promises in most matters except in respect of money.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.- T. Harv Eker

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
- T. Harv Eker

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”
- Wayne W. Dyer

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.- Andrew Carnegie

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Peace Quotes

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.- Bruce Lee

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.- Mahatma Gandhi

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.- Buddha

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. - Winston Churchill

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.- Bruce Lee

If we have no peace, it is because we forget we belong to each other.- Mother Teresa

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner- Nelson Mandela

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, peace is our gift to each other. - Elie Wiesel

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.- Amelia Earhart

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace begins with a smile.- Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.- Albert Einstein

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.- John F. Kennedy

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.- Nelson Mandela

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When embarking on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.- Confucius

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