Ideals Quotes - Page 14

• Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Lying, Suffering, Despair

  Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr

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• Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

  Albrecht Durer

  Beautiful, Lying, Humble

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• Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development - to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short - to try to do good with people rather than to them - this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.

  Randolph Bourne

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

  "The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918".

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• The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Thinking, Vanity, Effort

  "The Real Problem in DC: Sportsmanship" by Michael Brick, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2013.

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• My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Photography, Art, Real

  Julia Margaret Cameron, J. Paul Getty Museum (1996). “Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.6, Getty Publications

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• Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Europe, Middle East, Conflict

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• The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

  Che Guevara

  Sacrifice, Desire, Purpose

  "On Revolutionary Medicine". Speech to the Cuban Militia, www.marxists.org. August 19, 1960.

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• A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

  Michael Shaara

  War, Men, Realist

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.435, Ballantine Books

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• Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

  An Na

  People, Identity, Trying

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• It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Focus, Highest

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• Ideal relationship is based on giving.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Giving

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• An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

  Murray Bookchin

  Practice, Principles, Anarchist

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.20, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• Make Earth Day Every Day.”  While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Motivation, Beer

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• Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

  Marilyn Manson

  Opinion, Force, Humans

  Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good choice of a plains rifle for Africa. I found that many of the 17 white hunters regularly employed by White Hunters Limited of Niarobi used a .375 for their medium rifle, and most all of them considered it ideal.

  Elmer Keith

  White, Choices, World

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• A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

  Martin O'Malley

  Art, Creativity, Compassion

  "Politics Take Center Stage at Art Basel Miami Beach" by Rana Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you win playing like this it's twice as satisfying. I've always played attacking football: my footballing ideals are very clear and well defined. I've grown up at Barcelona with that style and that's the one I like. I think it's good to win like that, by taking the initiative right from the off.

  Xavi

  Football, Eye, Winning

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• American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Changed, Understood

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

  Christian D. Larson

  Letting Go, Determination, Ambition

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.288, Penguin

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• You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is.

  Mary Ruwart

  Freedom, Believe, People

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• Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

  Horatio Dresser

  Self, Quiet, Unnecessary

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• It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment is now in the process of development; that its eventual perfection is but a matter of time; and its use in warfare is certain to occur. I refer to the rocket. The perfection of the rocket in my opinion will give to future warfare the horror unknown in previous conflicts and will make possible destruction of nations, in a cool, passionless and scientific fashion.

  David Lasser

  Fashion, Distance, Future

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• The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Leadership, Voice, Leader

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• I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.

  Brian Murphy

  Happy Life, Lakes, Sea

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• The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Lying, Men, Firsts

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2006). “History of Economic Analysis”, p.43, Routledge

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