Ideal Quotes

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

Life, Good, Friends

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

Service, Road, Lip

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

Work, Women, Men

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Time, Truth, Live

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle

Life, Best, Making

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Art, Wish

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Judge, Evil, Another

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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge

Democratic, Force

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
Swami Vivekananda

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw

Living, While, Earth

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire

Government, Democracy, Tempered

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

Life, Change, Experience

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Live, Together

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire

Government, Democracy, Tempered

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
Jose Rizal

Life, Great, Useless

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

Present, Quite, Seem

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing, Real, Wrong

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo

Live, Human, Real

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Positive, Truth, Art

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry

Wife, She, Faithful

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo

Real, Lives, Drama

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo

Beauty, Beautiful, Idea

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo

Life, Dreams, Death

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade

Work, Happiness

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Children, Small, Cannot

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Difficult, Found

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

Happiness, Reason

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen

Dreams, Become, Dream

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