Ideals Quotes

#1. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

Indira Gandhi

#2. What ideals, when followed, will bring to you those blessings you so much seek, even a quiet conscience, a peace-filled heart, a loving family, a contented home? May I suggest these three: Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. Yes, you have been molding your ability to perform Jiu Jitsu for all these years, but you have been more importantly molding who you are as a person. Jiu Jitsu is the sculptor, and you are the clay. It is with this art that we strive and reach for our highest ideals not as athletes, but as people.

Chris Matakas

#4. I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Bianca Jagger

#5. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Barack Obama

#6. So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

Barack Obama

#7. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Frank Harris

#8. The worst form of inequality, is the inequality of ideals A people united by the same ideal, irrespective of religion, social status, race, political preference or sexual, would have the strength to fight for a fairer country.

Marcela Re Ribeiro

#9. The priest raises his foot. In it he feels a dull, heavy pain. This is no mere formality. He will now trample on what he has considered the most beautiful thing in his life, on what he has believed most pure, on what is filled with the ideals and the dreams of man.

Shusaku Endo

#10. You're all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you've taken as you've grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined.

Stephanie Danler

#11. True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#12. It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Anna Howard Shaw

#14. A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Karl Kraus

#15. It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#16. We recklessly attempt to disguise our 'greed' by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as 'rights' and 'privileges.' Yet, if we dare dress 'greed' in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live."
"But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.

Patrick Ness

#18. Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Tony Blair

#19. The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.

Gordon Brown

#20. The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.

Charles Ives

#21. Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well, and yet, in the face of implacable fate and an indifferent universe, they mutually assert the highest ideals of their humanity.

Caroline Alexander

#22. [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

Gloria Estefan

#23. We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.

Tina Fey

#24. No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

James E. Talmage

#25. The gospel should meet people at the point of their deepest confusion and at the height of their loftiest ideals. What matters most is that we bring Christ into every moment of human history and every point of human concern.

Christopher W. Brooks

#26. In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Mark Foley

#27. I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around a set of principles, ideals and ideas for our future.

Marco Rubio

#28. Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

Matthew B. Crawford

#29. America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.

Aasif Mandvi

#30. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I

Janet Fitch

#31. Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Robert Byrd

#32. I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

Elizabeth Ray

#33. Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood.

David W. Mack

#34. I don't believe in our politics, our way of thinking, believing, amusing ourselves; I don't share a single one of the ideals of our age.

Hermann Hesse

#35. We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

Axl Rose

#36. I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

Swami Vivekananda

#37. I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

Anne Frank

#38. I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

Stephen Baldwin

#39. Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Frank Pierson

#40. We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#41. Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Barbara Castle

#42. He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.

Terence Fisher

#43. Ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals. (p. 9)

Donald Rothberg

#44. Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.

Michael D. Higgins

#45. The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#46. Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

Kevin Costner

#47. Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.

Nathaniel Branden

#48. If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

William Powell

#49. Nonetheless, he is a boy. Despite his talents, a boy. And a boy is more idealistic than a man, and high ideals in the hands of children can be as dangerous as weapons. He thought he was in the right, and because he thought he was in the right, he thought there would be an exception. That's that.

Adam Levin

#50. Besides, there is perhaps nothing so effective as the monotony of provincial town life in the Andes for suffocating ideals and creativity.

Miguel Garnett Johnson

#51. The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.

Heinrich Rohrer

#52. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

#53. Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

E.L. James

#54. If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#55. It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Bertrand Russell

#56. Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.

Jenny Holzer

#57. America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

John Doolittle

#58. Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Les Brown

#59. I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

William Howard Taft

#60. Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.

Robert Reich

#61. I do not pretend to know the answer to this question. But it seems clear that unless there is, in some form, a positive answer, the chances for a truly democratic revolution that will achieve the humanistic ideals of the left are not great.

Noam Chomsky

#62. Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

Thomas Sowell

#63. An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#64. With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

Zoroaster

#65. In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

P. J. O'Rourke

#66. As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.

Charles Dickens

#67. Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.

Ursula Tillmann

#68. If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better,

E. M. Forster

#69. I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind.

Diane Hendricks

#70. American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

Joseph Nye

#71. This was the problem with making important decisions by committee and trying to run a war of ideals with men and women whose vision was so limited by money.

Jack Coughlin

#72. Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Katharine Susannah Prichard

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

Isadora Duncan

#74. Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They're inseparable.

Jim Stengel

#75. I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.

Christopher Lee

#76. The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Golda Meir

#77. The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Brennan Manning

#78. The very fact that we still have majors at all in this country represents a compromise between the ideals of depth and breadth -

William Deresiewicz

#79. The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

George Lucas

#80. Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Carl Schurz

#81. Jiu Jitsu removes the societal walls that we have been forced to unknowingly hold up with our adopted beliefs. It removes the limits of common thought, and allows for expression of our highest ideals.

Chris Matakas

#82. Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

Louise Imogen Guiney

#83. Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time.

Jim Croce

#84. A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.

Sarojini Naidu

#85. Believe in your dreams and ideals and pursue them with determination and motivation. Always find the time to do something for other people. Indeed, there is nothing more rewarding than making someone else happy.

Fabiola Gianotti

#86. It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple ... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

Addison Mizner

#87. We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals.

Lonnie Bunch

#88. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.

Charles E. Cobb Jr.

#89. History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

Ken Akamatsu

#90. Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Walter Lippmann

#91. Indeed, women like Peterman who admitted they joined the army for adventure as opposed to patriotism or love were often viewed with skepticism and derision by the press because their actions and motivations failed to conform to accepted romantic and cultural ideals.

DeAnne Blanton And Lauren M. Cook

#92. As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

Henning Mankell

#93. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Pema Chodron

#94. Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

Geoff Mulgan

#95. Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there is no vision the people perish. But it is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.

G.K. Chesterton

#96. Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Kevyn Aucoin

#97. Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#98. The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of whatever kind
these are right and proper ideals for life.

Michael Dirda

#99. Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#100. My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

Bob Dylan