Complacency Quote by Rick Warren

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

— Johan Huizinga

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

— Seth Godin

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

— Leon Blum

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

— Garrison Keillor

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for…

— Erich Fromm

It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after…

— Jean Vanier

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

— Dorothy Day

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and…

— Pierre Trudeau

The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.

— Grace Aguilar

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

— Bruce Springsteen