Ideals Quotes

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

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

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

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

Ideals are the world's masters.

The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.