It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.
Life only makes sense when our highest ideal is to serve Christ!
Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and there are many more women creators writing stunning and exciting music, and I wish I had space to list them all!
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals.
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.
The ideal doctor is patient.
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.
We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.
Ideals are great in theory. . . but they don't work too well in real life.
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere. . . they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.