Ideal Quotes

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

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

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

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

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

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

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.

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.