Idealist Quotes · Page 4

I'm an idealist. You do things your way well enough, for long enough, you'll get rewarded.

— Sami Zayn

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

— Simon Sinek

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

— Anonymous

I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

— Agnes Moorehead

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

— Sun Yat-sen

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

— Sargent Shriver

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

— Larry Osborne

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals…

— Peter Senge

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…

— Chris Hedges

That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope…

— Ralph Ellison

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being…

— Seth Godin

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead…

— Richard Branson

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic…

— Lawrence Reed

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…

— Irving Babbitt

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time.…

— Michael Franti

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist…

— Robertson Davies

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier…

— Peter Dreier

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal…

— Harper Lee

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not…

— Ayn Rand

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet…

— Shane Claiborne

I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup

— Henry Louis Mencken

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

— Alain de Botton

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

— Richard M. Nixon

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

— Stanley Kubrick

“The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right.”

— Anonymous

I have the heart of an idealist, and the thick skin of a realist.

— Anonymous

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

— Anonymous

“all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it.”

— Étienne Gilson

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real…

— Robert Penn Warren

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

— Josh Lanyon

In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who…

— Judith Butler

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist…

— Henry Miller