Ideals Quotes · Page 27

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the…

— Alexander Haig

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should…

— Rose Macaulay

In a nutshell: if freedom visualised by the Enlightenment and demanded/promised by Marx was made to the measure of the ideal producer;…

— Zygmunt Bauman

During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Rip Van Winkle would be the ideal stock market investor: Rip could invest in the market before his nap and when he…

— Richard Thaler

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure,…

— Mark Foley

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

— G. Stanley Hall

The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the…

— D. H. Lawrence

It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre'…

— Isabel Bishop

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of…

— Richard Foreman

When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no…

— Alberto Giacometti

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

— Steve Earle

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

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

— Margaret Oliphant

Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the…

— Henry Giroux

Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his…

— David Packard

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them…

— Woodrow Wilson

Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with…

— Pema Chodron

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;…

— Bertrand Russell

Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen…

— George Steiner

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and…

— Willa Cather