Ideal Quotes

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

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

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

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

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

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

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

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.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

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.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.