Quotes About Ideal

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

There are those 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.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

I was a spy. I was trusted. Until I changed sides. Funny how that happens. I gave up one country for another. One country for an ideal. I didn't think of it that way at the time. Call me crazy. But I just wanted to be free.

We all know it. We all know deep down inside that this world is not what it is supposed to be. We all yearn for things to be much better.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

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

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Of course', Churchill told Linlithgow, 'my ideal is narrow and limited. I want to see the British Empire preserved for a few more generations in its strength and splendour,' and he added, 'Only the most prodigious exertions of British genius will achieve this result.