Beat Quote by Jack Kerouac

“Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.”

— Brent Weeks

“I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.”

— Anne Frank

“It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder…

— Anne Frank

“The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.”

— Anthony de Mello

“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.”

— Molly Collier

“We are all born idealists, until life fucks us all.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to…

— Awdhesh Singh

“Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of…

— E.R. Braithwaite

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

— Arthur Scargill

“Life is never a complacent thing. It's more like a verb. You're not just alive; you have to consciously fuel every moment with life,…

— C. JoyBell C

I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

— Agnes Moorehead

“The highest ideal of life is to be true to oneself, and the worst is to lose one's true self for the sake of…

— Shiva Negi