| "Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about IDEAL things and in that sense it is more IDEAL and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana |
| "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." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the IDEAL woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the IDEAL man." »Alain |
| "Love is an IDEAL thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the IDEAL never goes unpunished." »Johann von Goethe |
| "I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only IDEAL we'll ever have." »Jewel |
| "Youth would be an IDEAL state if it came a little later in life." »Herbert Henry Asquith |
| "An IDEAL wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't." »Sacha Guitry |
| "An IDEAL cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity." »George Santayana |
| "Life in common among people who love each other is the IDEAL of happiness." »George Sand |
| "No man or woman who tries to pursue an IDEAL in his or her won way is without enemies." »Daisy Bates |
| "Set up as an IDEAL the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible." »Dr. Karl Menninger |
| "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or IDEAL." »Earl Nightingale |
| "... everything in nature is lyrical in its IDEAL essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." »George Santayana |
| "How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their IDEAL cousins." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an IDEAL extension which lends utility to its conditions." »George Santayana |
| "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." »Sophocles |
| "It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great IDEAL. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice. (El Filibusterismo)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an IDEAL, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman |
| "The IDEAL engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty |
| "The Army has carried the American ... IDEAL to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability." »Tom Lehrer |
| "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, IDEAL in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." »Brian Tracy |
| "The Christian IDEAL has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your IDEAL is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." »James Allen |
| "No vision and you perish No IDEAL, and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high." »Harriet Du Autermont |
| "The American IDEAL is youth -- handsome, empty youth." »Henry Miller |
| "A man's subconscious self is not the IDEAL companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour." »P. G. Wodehouse |
| "There are times when I think that the IDEAL library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams |
| "The IDEAL life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do." »Phillips Brooks |
| "Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the IDEAL and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity." »Bertrand Russell |
| "It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless IDEAL which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." »W. Somerset Maugham |
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