Our Ideals Quotes

50 quotes by 40 authors

Our ideals are our better selves. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. — Robert Byrd
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we… — William J. Clinton
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make,… — James Ishmael Ford
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we… — Pema Chodron
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. — Joseph Joubert
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. — George Bernard Shaw
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have… — Pico Iyer
We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside. — Barack Obama
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our… — Barack Obama
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man… — Samuel Ullman
Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes,… — Rollo May
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all… — Warren W. Wiersbe
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals,… — Ronald Reagan
We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals… — Barack Obama
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of… — Alberto Moravia
I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that… — Cory Booker
National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events. — Jane Addams

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