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
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
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
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
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
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
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — Jean Piaget 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
Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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
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
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
“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
Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,… — Robert Kennedy 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
War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church,… — Arthur Koestler 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
The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah 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
Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop… — Lissie Copy Share Image
It's an old, established rule, but "golden hour" lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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