Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is… — Unknown Author
A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin,… — John Wooden
If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us. — G-Dragon
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to… — Plato
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea,… — Amos Alonzo Stagg
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals. — Sheridan Smith
If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie. — Sally Phillips
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right… — Philip K. Dick
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is… — Swami Vivekananda
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to… — Richard G. Scott
The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Look at your life as an experiment. Make a comprise with all your doubts and fears: For a year or two, do what you can… — Mark Allen
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at… — Rose Macaulay
A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a… — Jason Mraz
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at… — Avicii
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something… — Henri
Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the… — Richard Ballantine
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist. — August Kleinzahler
There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means… — Peter Newmark
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana

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