Ideals Quotes

My ideal weight is moobless.

— Albie Sachs

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

— Wallace Stevens

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

— Jeff Sharlet

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

— Ron Chernow

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

— Jean Rostand

Everything is ideal to its parent.

— Sophocles

James Cagney as a baby is not my ideal thing.

— John Krasinski

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

— William J. Clinton

hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

— Ralph Bunche

Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.

— Stephanie Tourles

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

— Wallace D. Wattles

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

— Stella Young

“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .”

— Umberto Eco

Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.

— Lord Byron

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

— Jonathan Sacks

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one…

— Oscar Wilde

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and…

— Tarryn Fisher

Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of…

— Barack Obama

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

— John Mearsheimer

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to…

— Johnny Hart

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts…

— Kofi Annan

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

— Alfred Austin

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly…

— Steven Spielberg

Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to…

— Goswami Kriyananda

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The Constitution of India seeks to guarantee respect for the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the integrity of…

— Nyla Ali Khan

For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions,…

— Goh Chok Tong

“At that moment, he realised that he did not exist to her in the same way that he existed in his own…

— K.J. Bishop

The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years…

— Lucy Larcom

The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we…

— Tal Ben-Shahar

In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would…

— C. Sommerville

The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this…

— Hal Holbrook

I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of…

— Virginia Woolf

“The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are…

— Anonymous

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the…

— Cecil Roth

I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my…

— Murray Bookchin