Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. — James Hillman
Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works. — Roger Tory Peterson
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the… — Swami Vivekananda
The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades… — Swami Vivekananda
Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless. — Sathya Sai Baba
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath… — Carl Bernstein
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice… — John Ruskin
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to… — Calvin Coolidge
... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. — Emma Goldman
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of… — Charles Baudelaire
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was… — James Russell Lowell
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked;… — Olive Schreiner
The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying… — Robert Plant
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man… — Jean Rostand
Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you… — David Packard
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. — George Sand
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot… — Edward Abbey
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy.… — Imelda Staunton
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are… — Swami Vivekananda

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