Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away… — Steven Pinker
The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather… — C. Everett Koop
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it… — Robin Lane Fox
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… — Jean Baudrillard
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every… — Brian Tracy
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your… — Orison Swett Marden
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him?… — Seneca the Younger
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau
Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for… — Pema Chodron
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise… — Oscar Wilde
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould
We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and… — Mao Zedong
The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will… — Edna Ferber
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man… — D. H. Lawrence
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement… — John Stuart Mill
The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our… — Barack Obama
In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way. — Mitch Glazer
In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true.… — Ben Goldacre
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders… — Ivan Krastev
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no… — Janet Echelman
I loved all fantasy, and I always thought that the ideal job as a performer and an entertainer would be to take on a mythical… — Erica Cerra

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