Ideals Quotes

I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Ideal relationship is based on giving.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

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.

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

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?

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

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

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.