Ideals Quotes

693 Ideals quotes by 516 unique authors

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and… — Rebecca Solnit
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes… — James Allen
Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and… — Janet Fitch
Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew… — P.G. Wodehouse
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.… — Haruki Murakami
To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may… — Walt Disney
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.… — George Orwell
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Peter Kropotkin
Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined. — James A. Michener
If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect… — Susan J. Douglas
Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination. — Thomas S. Monson
And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of… — Barack Obama
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all… — Sylvia Plath
It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric,… — Laura Schlessinger
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength… — Ronald Reagan
It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your… — Richard P. Feynman
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse

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