Idealism Quote by Stuart Pearson Wright

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

— Lawrence Fagg

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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 do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

— Vanna Bonta

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

— Walter Lippmann

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 we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

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

— Isadora Duncan

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

— S. D Gordon

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

— Haruki Murakami

"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