Ideals Quotes

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

James Cagney as a baby is not my ideal thing.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

I'm just like anyone else. I have ideals that I grasp onto but I try not to grasp on too tightly and to be open to other people's thoughts and opinions even if they're completely different than mine.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

Every American, including our president, represents that we uphold the highest ideals of the world.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by Gautam Buddha this century cannot be an Asian century!

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.