Decline Quote by Garrison Keillor

People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who allow the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have…

— Charles Kennedy

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you…

— Neville Goddard

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

— Bertrand Russell

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

— Aldous Huxley

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal.…

— Hermann Hesse

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here…

— Bruce Lee

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

— Anais Nin

An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing…

— Herbert Hoover

“I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if…

— Roméo Dallaire

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

— Rem Koolhaas