“What are ideals but an admission that life is worthless? What is art but the negation of life?” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God. — Baal Shem Tov Copy Share Image
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.” — A.J. Darkholme Copy Share Image
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Be sure to incorporate your pooch into your daily activities to make her feel like a true family member. You can do… — Joyce Jillson Copy Share Image
Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love;… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than… — William James Copy Share Image
I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not. — Alain Enthoven Copy Share Image
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Historys shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is hell. — Japanese Manga Copy Share Image
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
