Ideals Quotes

693 Ideals quotes by 516 unique authors

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one… — Brandon Sanderson
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. — Oscar Wilde
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. — John F. Kennedy
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
Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become. — Michael Jackson
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The… — Jonathan Kozol
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is… — George Bernard Shaw
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You… — Unknown Author
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy… — Theodore Roosevelt
If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one. — Masashi Kishimoto
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I… — Emile M. Cioran
How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our… — Fred Rogers
I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I… — Naguib Mahfouz
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. — Doris Lessing
You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals. — P. C. Cast
Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better… — Ann Patchett
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but… — Robert Wright
It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. — Virginia Woolf
Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your… — Kim Harrison
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as… — Steven Pinker
Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's… — Patrick Ness
Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same… — Veronica Roth
We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals. — Samuel Beckett
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient… — Honore de Balzac

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