The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?” — Roe Horvat Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist without illusions. [Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days' ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals… — Peter Senge 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
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
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
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt 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 always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — 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
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 true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it.” — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
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