187 Quotes About Ideals

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

Ours has much more to do with the Masonic theme. Mozart was really intrigued by the ideals of the Masons and wanting to have truth, virtue and reason be the model by which people live by.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

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