Quotes About Ideal

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.

In an ideal world, you knock the runs off and win the game.

Now she could only shape him to her own ideal. She preferred him as a father, tall and gentle-voiced. She tried him in good clothes. She sat him gravely in a parlor, amid the rustle of silk dresses. She heard the clink of silver on a china rim.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

And Darcy was so perfect, he was just plain boring.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Das Ãœbel gedeiht nie besser, als wenn ein Ideal davorsteht

The Utopian attempt to realize an ideal state, using a blueprint of society as a whole, is one which demands a strong centralized rule of a few, and which is therefore likely to lead to a dictatorship.

It has been indicated above that because of its self-sufficiency, the ideal state appears to Plato as the perfect individual, and the individual citizen, accordingly, as an imperfect copy of the state.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Christianity did introduce (...) a religious ideal, that of chastity (...). Thus a life of virginal consecration became open to women (through which they could become men's equals), providing a respected career opportunity for [nuns], single women and widows whose aspirations were not exhausted by or directed toward the role of mother or wife. [Introduction]

c'étaient les deux moitiés d'un seul amour. L'une était l'idéal sublime, l'autre la douce réalité. Que me font maintenant tes ombrages et tes lacs, et même ton désert ?

James Allen said it well: "Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant vision.

Be the dream. —JOHN CHANEY

I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillment of some ideal.

Certainty of success leads to boredom, and doubt creates anxiety. Depression results from certain doubt: the assessment that the gap between real and ideal can never be bridged.

There must be something better than this world, and the world must be better than this.

Io commentai scherzosamente che la passione per i giganti è, in genere, un sintomo di declino: un'epoca che scambia l'Ercole Farnese per un ideale era destinata a finire male.

Primed to expect that our lives will follow a predictable path, we're thrown when they don't. We have linear expectations but nonlinear realities... We're all comparing ourselves to an ideal that no longer exists and beating ourselves up for not achieving it.

if you are cursed with perfectionism, then you're absolutely sunk. This ideal is a yardstick which always gives you the opportunity to browbeat yourself, to berate yourself and others. Since this ideal is an impossibility, you can never live up to it. You are merely in love with this ideal, and there is no end to the self-torture, to the self-nagging, self-castigating. It hides under the mask of "self-improvement." It never works.

Utopia: a synonym for oblivion.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?