Aspire Quote by Susan Sontag

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

— Lawrence Fagg

Some people never have anything except ideals.

— E. W. Howe

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

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

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

— Isadora Duncan

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Walter Lippmann

Our ideals are our better selves.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

"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

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

— Toyohiko Kagawa

“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