Ideal Quotes

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

~ Brennan Manning

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

~ Élisabeth Badinter

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

~ Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?

~ Mitch Albom

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.

~ Jeffrey Fry

If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.

~ J. Budziszewski

Always seek to allow others space to be imperfect.

~ Alan Downs

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

~ Arthur Ashe

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

~ Kenny G

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

~ Immanuel Kant

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

~ Marquis De Sade

My ideal travel companions are my family.

~ Pharrell Williams

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

~ George Wald

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

~ Alexander Ludwig

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

~ Alfred De Vigny