Ideal Quotes

1406 quotes by 1036 authors

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing.… — Robert Collyer
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on. — Ezra Hall Gillett
Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the… — Bob Hope
What, I'm supposed to succumb to your ideal image of what this is? No. I'm gonna stand above that and I'm gonna be who I… — Demi Lovato
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew,… — Sigmund Freud
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. — Bil Keane
All great men are play actors of their own ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;… — Samuel Smiles
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of… — W. Somerset Maugham
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person… — George W. Bush
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best… — George Santayana
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. — George Santayana
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and… — Tom Lehrer
The ideal way to win a championship is step by step. — Phil Jackson

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