Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable… — Sophocles
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal. — Calvin Seerveld
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. — Fred Reed
The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. — Rafael Sabatini
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body… — Rachel Kushner
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. — Unknown Author
Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" (… — Tom Peters
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. — Lord Byron
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days.… — Unknown Author
You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality. — Leon Blum
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the… — Pierre de Coubertin
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it… — Harper Lee
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal. — Richard Livingstone
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward… — Laura Schlessinger
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was… — Thomas Huxley
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions… — Corliss Lamont
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body… — Unknown Author
Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles… — Patrick Duffy
The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country,… — Danny Wallace
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone… — Theodor Herzl
We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must… — Paulo Coelho
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the… — Charles Baudelaire
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative – destroying… — Kurt Lewin

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