Top 1200 Ideal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

I am not into the mother sentiment, really. My heart is not into this ideal mother role; it does not work for me.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

It seems that the ideal age for a Bollywood heroine is 24, which is great, but it would be nice to see some older women too on the big screen.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress too - when you go shopping, you try on all possible selves and then decide.

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet.

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.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

The kind of audience that watches 'Matlock' is ideal for a lead-in to the affiliates' newscast in the afternoon. That audience is older.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100?

Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. ...If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

Anywhere warm would be ideal for me to shoot 'Imposters!' Thailand would be fantastic.

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.