“Nothing changes if nothing changes.” You have heard it many time before, right? It says that growth comes from change. To grow, we need fresh ideas. We need action. That’s where innovation comes in.
Here are some of the best quotes on innovation to inspire you. Whether you’re working on a business idea, a creative project, or personal growth.
“Dreams”
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
-Hughes, Langston. Dreams. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. 1994.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Alan Kay, Computer Scientist and Futurist
This quote beautifully said the essence of innovation as empowering, and transformative.
Innovation Quotes About Creativity
“If you face self doubts that will restrict your talent, focus on aspirations and keep your goals high.”
Narendra Modi
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce, Author
Quotes About Risk and Failure
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
Brené Brown, Research Professor and Author
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”
Woody Allen, Filmmaker and Writer
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
William Shedd, Theologian
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
Albert Einstein, Physicist
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
George Addair, Motivational Speaker
Quotes About Change
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi, Political Leader and Activist
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller, Architect and Futurist
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, and others build windmills.”
Chinese Proverb
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw, Playwright and Critic
Quotes About Success
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Playwright and Critic
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building on the new.”
Socrates, Philosopher
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
William Blake, Poet and Painter
Famous Quotes
“If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.”
Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc.
“Never before in history has innovation offered the promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”
Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft
“The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.”
Peter Drucker, Management Consultant and Author
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
John Cage, Composer and Philosopher
Quotes for Inspiration
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
William Pollard, Theologian and Educator
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Entrepreneur
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
Brené Brown, Research Professor and Author
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Entrepreneur
Quotes About the Future
“We know that dreams fuel innovation.”
Bertrand Piccard, Explorer and Inventor
“All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.”
Eric Ries, Entrepreneur and Author
“Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.”
Joichi Ito, Technology Innovator
Motivational Quotes
“Innovation comes from saying NO to 1,000 things.”
Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc.
“Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.”
Hyman Rickover, Naval Engineer
“Modern society is built upon two things: truth, which is discovered, and innovation, which is created.”
True Tamplin, Author and Entrepreneur
Quotes for Everyday Life
“Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.”
Andy Hargreaves, Education Researcher
“An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.”
Paul Keres, Chess Grandmaster
“Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.”
Steve Stoute, Entrepreneur and Author
