Ideal Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain)
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. View quote
H. H. Asquith
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. View quote
Clay Aiken
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service. View quote
Albert Einstein
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. View quote
José Martí
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. View quote
John Updike
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. View quote
Edward Hopper
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. (Lawrence Lessig)
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. View quote
Orson Welles
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. View quote
Karl Kraus
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them. View quote
Learned Hand
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. (Simone de Beauvoir)
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. View quote
Sophocles
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life. View quote
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. View quote
Ludwig Quidde