Quotes of: Idealized Keyword

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Francis Herbert Hedge

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Britt Ekland

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Anita Brookner

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

E. F. Schumacher

The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; it's great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hindui...

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3

If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes may be short lived, and you may feel that you are nev...

The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Raymond Chandler

We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air. Don't forget to breathe.

The Ideal in the West

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Sargent Shriver

All people have at least their own one theory of an ideal life, but not that which is ideally acceptable to one and all.

Anuj Somany

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons li...

Nelson Mandela

The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

An Ideal Husband

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

An Ideal Husband

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

Peter T. King

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Charles Bronson

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

Henry Cabot Lodge

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Gary Hamel

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

The Brothers Karamazov