Ideals Quotes

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

If we hold onto our American ideals, we've got to make sure that all opportunities are available - including access to the internet - no matter what income level you're at or where you live.

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed.

The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

The future that I see celebrates those types of like-minded ideals and ideas. I don't know what's coming, but I know that we're not going to get knocked out so easy.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

"Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.