There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which… — Francis Ouimet Copy Share Image
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is… — William James Copy Share Image
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All the scenes that have to do with the fact that, at the end of the day, we're all engaged - hopefully… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
It was the ideal of living in Eretz Yisrael that took me out of my house, out of my country and caused… — Nahmanides Copy Share Image
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . .… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I need ideals that are so high above my existence that I must stretch myself into the headspace of mythical beasts and… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and… — Brian Murphy Copy Share Image
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
