Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Ideal

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Gustave Flaubert (1821–80) French Novelist, Playwright, Short Story Writer

I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn’t change, you’ve become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.
Neale Donald Walsch (b.1943) American Spiritual Writer

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends-wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) American Military Leader

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo (1475–1564) Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet, Engineer

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work… I’ve found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.
Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank (1929–45) Holocaust Victim

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.
Anne Frank (1929–45) Holocaust Victim

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris (1917–86) American Essayist, Drama Critic

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Dwight Morrow (1873–1931) American Businessman, Diplomat

Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) British Historian

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you 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 (1864–1912) British Philosophical Writer

Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

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 (1802–85) French Novelist

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
James Allen (1864–1912) British Philosophical Writer

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