Top 52 Most Idealistic Quotes

#1. I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

Paul Nurse

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#2. How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

Tamra Davis

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#3. Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Most Idealistic Quotes #37271
#4. If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Shunryu Suzuki

Most Idealistic Quotes #40983
#5. The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.

Sam Worthington

Most Idealistic Quotes #64024
#6. I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business of the Church."
"Then what is?"
"Salvation.

Catherine Marshall

Most Idealistic Quotes #75377
#7. I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

Shah Rukh Khan

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#8. An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth
but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Most Idealistic Quotes #91344
#9. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

Kenneth Cain

Most Idealistic Quotes #93317
#10. For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

Bernie Sanders

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#11. Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

Robert Caro

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#12. It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

Margot Kidder

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#13. Violence does not build up the kingdom of God, the kingdom of humanity. On the contrary, it is a favorite instrument of the Antichrist, however idealistic its religious motivation may be. It serves, not humanity, but inhumanity.

Pope Benedict XVI

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#14. That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and bankers, however idealistic, were simply agents of subversion.

Paul Theroux

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#15. But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

Herbert Read

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#16. Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

Adolf Hitler

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#17. No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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#18. A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#19. Mapping does not purport to create an idealistic vision where all teachers agree, love one another, and gather around a campfire and sing 'Curriculum Kumbaya.' What it can develop is a sense of place, of respect, and of new grounds for discussion, disputes, and direction.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

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#20. We're all idealistic when young.

Pat Oliphant

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#21. Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

James Wolcott

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#22. I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

John Cusack

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#23. 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

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#24. Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

Gloria Steinem

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#25. I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.

Vanessa Kerry

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#26. In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'

Gillian Jacobs

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#27. Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

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#28. I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

Sondre Lerche

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#29. In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

Emilio Estevez

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#30. Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Maggie Gallagher

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#31. How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

Iris Johansen

Most Idealistic Quotes #402032
#32. Yet after withdrawing from three wars in two generations - each begun with idealistic aspirations and widespread public support but ending in national trauma - America struggles to define the relationship between its power (still vast) and its principles.

Henry Kissinger

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#33. Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

Andy Hertzfeld

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#34. 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

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

Paul Theroux

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#36. 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

Most Idealistic Quotes #519252
#37. Reaching your potential is not simply about dreaming or being idealistic, It is a process that involve specific actions, exercises, discipline and hard work. It is challenging, rewarding and unending.

Robert S. Kaplan

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#38. A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Irving Babbitt

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#39. As a self described idealistic I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I'm in between romances at the moment.

Carl Henegan

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#40. We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

Shane Claiborne

Most Idealistic Quotes #568958
#41. Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

Desmond Tutu

Most Idealistic Quotes #582483
#42. 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

Most Idealistic Quotes #598446
#43. Maybe I'm being too hard on both of us. Shit, we were young and reasonably idealistic.

Stephen King

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#44. Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

Clint Eastwood

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#45. I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

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#46. 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

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#47. 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

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#48. For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

Jack Kornfield

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#49. 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

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#50. We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

John Lennon

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#51. Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

Kim Stanley Robinson

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#52. Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Terry Eagleton

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