Ideals Quotes - Page 7

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.