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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep…

— Anne Frank

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

— Lawrence Fagg

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…

— Michelle Shocked

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

— Charles Schumer

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

— Isadora Duncan

I don't believe in ideals but rather morals because I have seen morals in true action.

— Jeremy Limn

I'm an idealist.

— Bobby Cannavale

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters,…

— Carl Schurz

An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing…

— Herbert Hoover

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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…

— Marilyn Manson