Ideals Quotes

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

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

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.