... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas… the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
“every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do… — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
