America Quote by Brad Pitt

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

— Lawrence Fagg

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

— Mike Pence

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

— Isadora Duncan

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of…

— Joan D. Chittister

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

— Walter Lippmann

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for…

— Erich Fromm

In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they…

— Vaclav Havel