Ideals Quotes - Page 3

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Ideal relationship is based on giving.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

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

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.