Ideals Quotes - Page 8

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Isadora Duncan

Successful, Earth

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So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.

Poul Anderson

Technology, Years, Way

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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions

Valentina Tereshkova

Change, Party, Essence

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In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.

Paula Gunn Allen

Spiritual, Kids, Native American

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It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

Walter Dean Myers

Book, People, Needs

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Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

Bill Ayers

Pentagon

Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.264, Beacon Press

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As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

David Horowitz

Equality, America, People

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If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.

Elena Kagan

Ideas, Might, Action

"Kagan Argued for Government 'Redistribution of Speech'" by Matt Cover, www.cnsnews.com. May 11, 2010.

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Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Work

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.140, Vivekananda Kendra

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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Jonathan Lethem

Art, Rights, Diversity

"Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

John Updike

Marriage, Real, Heaven

John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.467, Random House

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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

Victor Hugo

Art, Real, Men

Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

Victor Hugo

Needs, Bread, Rooted

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2640, BookCaps Study Guides

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Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Robert E. Lee

Dream, Mean, Thinking

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When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beautiful, Art, Use

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Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Wall, Real, Cities

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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

William Butler Yeats

Art, People, Conquer

William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Douglas MacArthur

Attitude, Self Confidence, Years

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We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dream, Fighting, Civilization

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

Albert Camus

Struggle, Reality, Years

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The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

George Bellows

Inspiring, Artist, Creative

Marjorie B. Searl, George Bellows, Ronald Netsky, University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery (2003). “Leaving for the country: George Bellows at Woodstock”, Memorial Art Gallery of Univ

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To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline.

Billy Graham

Christian, Religious, Commitment

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We see but in dreams the ideal.

Henri Cazalis

Dream

Henri Cazalis, “Always”

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Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Vanna Bonta

Leadership, People, Promise

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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

James Boswell

Philosophy, Science, Feet

James Boswell (1998). “Life of Johnson”, p.333, Oxford University Press, USA

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