National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern… — Anna Julia Cooper 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
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily. — Pamala Oslie Copy Share Image