I'm an idealist. You do things your way well enough, for long enough, you'll get rewarded. — Sami Zayn Copy Share Image
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course. — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons,… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier… — Peter Dreier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships -… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
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