Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want… — Neville Goddard
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. — Adrian Mitchell
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually… — Saul Bass
What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western… — Boyd Rice
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror. — Octave Mirbeau
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in… — Michael Lang
Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence. — Mariella Frostrup
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. — Owen D. Young
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living… — Joseph Pilates
Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always… — Joseph Pilates
Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying… — Joseph Pilates
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.… — Leslie Charteris
Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does,… — Ted Simon
Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean… — Tsutomu Ohshima
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated… — Richard Foreman
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then… — George Nakashima
Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. — Charlie Simpson
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. — Janet Erskine Stuart
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of… — Romain Rolland
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates
The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and… — David M. Raup
I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want,… — Bella Pollen

Who Wrote These Ideal Quotes

1,036 authors contributed a total of 1,406 Ideal Quotes, led by these top contributors: