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"We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success." »Orison Swett Marden
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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 von Goethe
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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
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"I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have." »Jewel
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"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies." »Daisy Bates
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"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." »Herbert Henry Asquith
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"Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible." »Dr. Karl Menninger
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"An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity." »George Santayana
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"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid." »Karl Kraus
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness." »George Sand
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"An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't." »Sacha Guitry
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"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." »Earl Nightingale
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"Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal." »George Eliot
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"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" »George Bernard Shaw
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"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." »Aristotle
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"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." »George Santayana
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"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
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"THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions." »George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions." »George Santayana
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"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, Antigone
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"To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest." »Wallace Stevens
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