Ideals Quotes

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Marian Wright Edelman

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. De Mille

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Ralph Johnson Bunche

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth

Albert Einstein

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Victor Hugo

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Ideals are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

Bill Moyers

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies

Daisy Bates

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

George Norman Douglas

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Walter Lippmann

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.

G. K. Chesterton

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things

Tryon Edwards

When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then

John Oliver Hobbes

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Vanna Bonta

Some people never have anything except ideals.

E.W. Howe

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