Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered. — Ayn Rand
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. — Albert Pike
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to… — Swami Vivekananda
Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal… — Swami Vivekananda
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own.… — Henry B. Eyring
The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. — Gay Hendricks
No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of… — J.R. Miller
Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless… — John Updike
Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or… — Sigmund Freud
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you. — Chogyam Trungpa
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal… — Swami Vivekananda
Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect. — Brian Tracy
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper — E. O. Wilson
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the… — Swami Vivekananda
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road… — Franz Liszt
The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better. — Jean Kilbourne
Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only… — Daisaku Ikeda
There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness. — T.E. Lawrence
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. — Elwyn Brooks White
Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it… — Ronald Reagan
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the… — Swami Vivekananda
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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