Ideals Quotes
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.
The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.
Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.
I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!
We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.
False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.