Idealistic People Quotes

#1. Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in heaven. To succeed in this world, you have to be known to people.

Sonia Sotomayor

#2. The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.

John Allen Fraser

#3. Americans ... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

Frank Gehry

#5. I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

David Lloyd

#6. A pragmatic person sees the dark and the light side of life, while an
idealist sees a life filled with colors.

Eraldo Banovac

#7. It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Olivier Martinez

#8. Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

Philip Kerr

#9. Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

Joan Cusack

#10. Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Clive James

#11. When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in ... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.

Steve Jobs

#12. Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless.

David Attenborough

#13. Idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and

John Green

#14. What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Abraham Maslow

#15. I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Woodrow Wilson

#18. Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

Paulo Coelho

#20. It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

Patch Adams

#21. Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

Annie Lennox

#22. It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#23. Some may think that to affirm dialogue - the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world - is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.

Paulo Freire

#24. It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

Obafemi Awolowo

#25. I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#26. All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

Paul Theroux

#27. I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

PJ Harvey

#28. I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

Steve Jobs