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Ideals Quotes - Page 2

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.33, e-artnow

The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

Horatio Willis Dresser (1904). “The Christ Ideal: A Study of the Spiritual Teachings of Jesus”

We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

"Israel: The Watchman". content.time.com. August 16, 1948.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.47, Multnomah

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

Ralph Nader (2013). “Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns”, Seven Stories Press

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

Sir Norman Angell (1914). “Prussianism and Its Destruction: With which is Reprinted Part II. of "The Great Illusion"”, McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, [191-?]

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

"Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 407, 1990.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.10, Litres

We see but in dreams the ideal.

Henri Cazalis, “Always”

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.59, 谷月社