Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of… — W. Somerset Maugham
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person… — George W. Bush
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best… — George Santayana
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. — George Santayana
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and… — Tom Lehrer
The ideal way to win a championship is step by step. — Phil Jackson
The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened… — Anagarika Govinda
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or… — Mahatma Gandhi
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… — Carl Sagan
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. — Alfred de Vigny
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all. — Miranda Richardson
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful… — Herbert Hoover
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. — Clay Aiken
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the… — Rene Dubos
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. — Vilayat Inayat Khan
The actual well seen is ideal. — Thomas Carlyle
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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