Better things Quote by Tryon Edwards

Sometimes we do not live up to our highest ideals.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Our ideals are our better selves.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

If we can't behave and speak in tune with our values, then they aren't really our values.

— Luciana Berger

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

— Carl Schurz

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

— Nikki Giovanni

We have to open our minds and believe we can be better and be on the rise.

— Jorginho

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine…

— Tryon Edwards

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But…

— Matthew Arnold

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

We meet failure only when we forget our goals, ideals and principles.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept…

— Conan O'Brien