Ideals Quotes

693 Ideals quotes by 516 unique authors

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. — Theodore Roosevelt
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. — Jonathan Sacks
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. — Carl Schurz
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. — Robert Smithson
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his… — Steven Spielberg
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. — Gertrude Stein
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just… — William Howard Taft
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry,… — Helen Thomas
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not… — Harry S. Truman
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give… — Samuel Ullman
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing… — Ayelet Waldman
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. — Mae West
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. — Alfred North Whitehead
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. — Oscar Wilde
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from… — Saul Williams
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues… — E. O. Wilson
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. — Woodrow Wilson
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. — Naomi Wolf
The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank.… — Muhammad Yunus
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. — Geoff Mulgan
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of… — C.S. Lewis
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. — Epicurus
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. — Albert Einstein

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