Quotes About Ideal

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'