Ideals Quotes
+1The actual well seen is ideal.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Only do what your heart tells you.
- Princess Diana
+1We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
- Charlotte Perkins
+1The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.
- Moncure Conway
+1I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
- Zora Neale
+1Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
- Gustave Flaubert
+1Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt
+1We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
- Gloria Steinem
+1Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
- Joseph Joubert
+1No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
- Winston Churchill
+1An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
- George Santayana
+1An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford
+1Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.
- Norbert Capek
+1Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
+1We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
- Edwin Markham
+1Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
- John Galsworthy
+1Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
- David Ogilvy
+1Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
- Leo Buscaglia
+1All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- Hermann Hesse
+1We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
- Marian Wright Edelman
+1The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
- James Russell Lowell
+1If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
- George C. Lichtenberg
+1Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Johann Wolfgang
+1Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
+1Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
- Charlotte Perkins
+1The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo
+1It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
- Karl Kraus
+1You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.
- John Lennon
+1We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: by doing a deed; by experiencing a value; and by suffering.
- Victor Frankl
+1If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Idealist: a cynic in the making.
- Irving Layton
+1I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
+1He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln
