Ideals Quotes - Page 25

• It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Knees, Acquire

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

  Katharine Susannah Prichard

  Art, Sacrifice, Things In Life

  "100 Great Australians". Book by Robert Macklin, 1983.

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• The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Civilization

  "Philosophy: Who Needs It".

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• Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

  Ayn Rand

  Expression, Political, Intellectual

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• Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tolerance, Proof, Distrust

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  Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

  Albert Pike

  Philosophy, Journey, Perfection

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reality, Planes, Novel

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Men, Divinity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2149, Manonmani Publishers

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• Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Mastery, Facts

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Love Is, Joy, Sorrow

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• The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.

  Gay Hendricks

  Goal, Use, Life Is

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough [great movies] to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best.

  J.R. Miller

  Wise, Character, Years

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• God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Doe, World

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• In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Hug, Wake Up

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• Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Giving Up, Light

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• The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

  David Platt

  Dream, Believe, Home

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• Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Heart, Perfect, Tasks

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• Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great

  Bobbi Brown

  Reality, Creating, Secret

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• However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.

  James Connolly

  Ocean, Independent, Army

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Weed, Thinking

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• Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

  Rick Warren

  Real, Maturity, Hands

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• The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Live Life, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.652, Discovery House

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• First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed my daughter as he has charmed me. I think my kid charmed him, too. This is a fellow I could joyfully spend the rest of my career working with. He's that good and that generous.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Kids, Thinking

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• A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.

  Mike Farrell

  Children, Rights, Safety

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