Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I… — Swami Vivekananda
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our… — Swami Vivekananda
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that… — Robert Anton Wilson
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,… — Fatema Mernissi
To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men… — Unknown Author
A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple… — R. S. Thomas
But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or… — A.S. King
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in… — G. Campbell Morgan
Make the man within your living ideal. — Karl G. Maeser
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and… — Henry David Thoreau
Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon… — Eustace Haydon
Network selectively. Nothing says "business newbie" like shotgun networking. "You never know when someone might say yes" is marketing for dummies. Take the time to… — Steve Pavlina
It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature… — Unknown Author
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic… — Albert Einstein
They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it. — Wilbur Smith
The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling. — Jessica Valenti
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or… — Satyajit Ray
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever. — Julia Ward Howe
The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music, of course, is… — Mel Weitsman
I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor… — Jeremy Brett
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects… — Joseph Sobran
The ideal is not believing in, but believing from. — Eric Butterworth
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better. — Carolyn Heilbrun
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the… — Ernestine Rose

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