Ideals Quotes

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be OK with that.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

Now is the time to lead your ideal life.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.