“ Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. ”
- Harold Nicolson- Copy
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“ O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. ”
- Agnetha Faltskog- Copy
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“ A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. ”
- Vilayat Inayat Khan- Copy
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“ Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.". ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
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“ I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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“ Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. ”
- Carl Schurz- Copy
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“ Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ”
- Periander- Copy
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“ Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
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“ Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher. ”
- James Stephens- Copy
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“ To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
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“ The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ”
- Stanley Baldwin- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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