Ideals and Idealism Quotes
30 quotations about Ideals and Idealism
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
The actual well seen is ideal.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Authors on Ideals and Idealism
Amos Bronson Alcott
Mikhail Bakunin
Stanley Baldwin
William F. Buckley
Thomas Carlyle
Malcolm De Chazal
Winston Churchill
Eliza Cook
Calvin Coolidge
Henry Ford
John Galsworthy
Francis Herbert Hedge
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Herbert Clark Hoover
Libby Houston
Henrik Ibsen
Joseph Joubert
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Ellen Key
Pir Vilayat Khan