We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but… — William Powell Copy Share Image
If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race,… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work… — Carl David Anderson Copy Share Image
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way --… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I think too many of the politicians in Washington have forgotten simple ideals like solving problems and helping neighbors. The Washington game… — Charlie Melancon Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
