Buddhism Quote by Pema Chodron

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who…

— Steven Pressfield

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

— Jeffery Deaver

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

— Albert Schweitzer

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Our ideals are our better selves.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited…

— Charlotte Mason

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you…

— Neville Goddard

“What we ought be, we can be.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

— Conan O'Brien

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

— Martin Luther King, Jr