41 Ideals Quotes And Sayings

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Ideal Quotes :

• “The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.”  ~Bauvard
• “Ideals are the world’s masters.”  ~Josiah G. Holland
• “You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.”  ~Norman Douglas
• “It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.”  ~George Matthew Adams
• “But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.”  ~Robert Shea
• “Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.”  ~Alberto Moravia
• “Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.”  ~E.W. Howe
• “The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”  ~Christian Nestell Bovee
• “Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.”  ~James Naismith
• “Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.”  ~Juliette Gordon Low

Quotes About Ideals :

• “When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can’t live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.”  ~Judith Martin
• “Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.”  ~Michael Jackson
• “We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.”  ~Lucy Maud Montgomery
• “Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.”  ~Paul Watson
• “Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.”  ~Robert Byrd
• “Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.”  ~Walter Lippmann
• “Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”  ~Ralph Bunche
• “The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”  ~James Russell Lowell
• “Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.”  ~Mitt Romney
• “The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.”  ~Penn Jillette

Lofty Ideals Quotes :

• “Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”  ~Carl Schurz
• “Life doesn’t require ideals. It requires standards of action.”  ~Haruki Murakami
• “Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards the things we live by and teach our children are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”  ~Walt Disney
• “I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”  ~Anne Frank
• “Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.”  ~Ali Khamenei
• “Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”  ~Walt Disney
• “A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas better. They wound, but they’re better.”  ~Oscar Wilde
• “Movies are more than a commodity. 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.”  ~Frank Pierson
• “Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”  ~Jawaharlal Nehru
• “A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.”  ~Herbert Read

Powerful Ideals Quotes :

• “Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”  ~Ron Paul
• “Our ideals are our better selves.”  ~Amos Bronson Alcott
• “We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.”  ~Harold Nicolson
• “In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued they may be essential to survival.”  ~Noam Chomsky
• “To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.”  ~Major Taylor
• “All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”  ~Maya Angelou
• “I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”  ~Anne Frank
• “When you stop having dreams and ideals well, you might as well stop altogether.”  ~Marian Anderson
• “The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.”  ~Anna Howard Shaw
• “The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.”  ~Eric Holder
• “Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.”  ~Joseph Joubert