Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

My ideal travel companions are my family. — Pharrell Williams
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. — Robert Anton Wilson
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. — Robert Anton Wilson
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. — Woodrow Wilson
Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal. — Frans de Waal
The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow. — Henry B. Eyring
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. — Colm Toibin
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well. — Chogyam Trungpa
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather… — John Stuart Mill
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. — Italo Calvino
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own,… — P.G. Wodehouse
My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books.… — Eudora Welty
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing… — Mahatma Gandhi
I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you… — Victor Hugo
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against… — Nelson Mandela
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal. — Victor Hugo
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. — Philip Yancey
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the… — Simone de Beauvoir
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity… — Banksy
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage… — David O. McKay

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