Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
~By Harold Nicolson ~
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.
~By Terence Fisher ~
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
~By C. S. Forester ~
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
~By Gordon Getty ~
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
~By Herbert Read ~
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
Ideals are the worlds masters.
~By J. G. Holland ~
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
~By Naomi Wolf ~
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
~By Judith Martin ~
President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.
~By William L. Jenkins ~
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
~By Camille Paglia ~
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!
~By Stephen Baldwin ~
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~By Samuel Ullman ~
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
~By William Osler ~
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
~By Bill Frist ~
Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
~By George Takei ~
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
~By Jeff Miller ~
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
~By George Lucas ~
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
~By Ron Lewis ~
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.
~By Kristi Noem ~
But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?
~By Henry Campbell Bannerman ~
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
~By Cecil B. DeMille ~
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
~By Aly Khan ~
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
~By Adam Schiff ~
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
~By Mae West ~
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
~By Golda Meir ~
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
~By Steve Buyer ~
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.
~By John Burns ~
I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.
~By David Lloyd ~
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.
~By Mike McCready ~
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.
~By Cliff Shaw ~
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
~By Valentina Tereshkova ~
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
~By Robert Shea ~
You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
~By Roger McGough ~
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
~By Norman Douglas ~
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
~By Barbara Castle ~
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
~By Ralph Bunche ~
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
~By Marian Anderson ~
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
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.
~By William Howard Taft ~
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
~By Garet Garrett ~
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
~By Carl Schurz ~
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
~By Ralph Nader ~
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
~By Barbara Castle ~
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
~By Alberto Moravia ~
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
~By Major Taylor ~
All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
~By Billy Bragg ~
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.
~By Rob Morrow ~
A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
~By Laisenia Qarase ~
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
~By James Naismith ~
Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
~By Patrick Geddes ~
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~By Anne Frank ~
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
~By Robert Byrd ~
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~By Anne Frank ~
Our ideals are our better selves.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
~By Harold Ford ~
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
~By Maya Angelou ~
If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
~By James Talent ~
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
~By George Grosz ~
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
~By Sai Baba ~
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.
~By Mark Foley ~
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.
~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
~By Robert Smithson ~
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
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