No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Gustave Courbet

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

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
Sarah Bernhardt

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Albert Pike

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Gustave Flaubert

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
Lawrence Lessig

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Johan Huizinga

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
Jurgen Habermas

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

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
Adrian Mitchell

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike