Ideals Quotes

693 Ideals quotes by 516 unique authors

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What… — Ayn Rand
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm… — James E. Faust
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was… — Charles Bukowski
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who… — Sergei Lukyanenko
We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. — E L Doctorow
In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are… — Vaclav Havel
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he… — Jack Kerouac
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and… — Anton Chekhov
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain… — Emile M. Cioran
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. — Ayn Rand
Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with… — David O. McKay
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals. — Ernest Becker
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy. — Margaret Mitchell
There are two Mustafa Kemals. One the flesh-and-blood Mustafa Kemal who now stands before you and who will pass away. The other is you, all… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. — Haruki Murakami
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,… — Oscar Wilde
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body. — Thomas Moore
Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally,… — Rajneesh

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