When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal. — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana 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
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
The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and… — George Bellows Copy Share Image
Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
The difference between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The… — Rudolf Steiner 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
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
