Ideal Quotes

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If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a… — Marion Woodman
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is .… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son… — Maximilian Kolbe
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes… — Warren Buffett
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not… — Wilfred Trotter
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or… — Howard Thurman
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.… — Swami Vivekananda
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation… — George Orwell
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest,… — Grenville Kleiser
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis… — Elizabeth Bowen
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ... — Anatoly Karpov
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To… — Ruth Bernhard
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the… — David Hurn
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. — Red Smith
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social… — Peter Singer

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