Ideals Quote by Charles Henry Parkhurst

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

— Toyohiko Kagawa

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

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

"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

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 are the world's masters.

— Anonymous

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

— Lawrence Fagg

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

— Carl Schurz

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

— Isadora Duncan

“Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies".”

— Henrik Ibsen

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters,…

— Carl Schurz

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

— Albert Schweitzer