Quotes About Ideal

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Mr. Kipling stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.

Lucy does not stand for the medieval lady, who was rather an ideal to which she was bidden to lift her eyes when feeling serious.

Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of the British way of life.

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. It's the person who says, "I'm going to become this and then progressively works toward that goal.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that's what he or she decided to do …

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal.

In a perfect world all men would be pastry chefs.

For this - the ideal, as it is set - should be not as to what others should do to make the ideal situation for self, but as to how self may apply itself in its ideal to bring the ideal relationships with others.

For, while selflessness is the law, to belittle self is a form of selfishness and not selfless. But putting the ideal in that which is the Way, know that if and when the Lord is with thee, ye are already in the great majority; ye are then glorifying the Lord, not attempting to justify self. For, justifying of self is blaming someone else.

First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power or means to coerce others.

In a perfect world, art and commerce, I think, could be in vacuums and coexist in full purity.