Quotes about Ideals

"I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out."
-Anne Frank

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
-Anne Frank

"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."
-Cecil B. De Mille

"When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then."
-John Oliver Hobbes

"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
-Agnes Repplier

"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Cervantes Every war has its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades."
-Karl Shapiro

"I conceive the essential task of religion to be 'to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind'. "
-Robert Millikan

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
-Norman Douglas

"Further the ideals that inspired Daniel's life and work."
-Daniel Pearl

"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."
-Cliff Shaw

"When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether."
-Marian Anderson

"Our approach is common sense in this professional era, and the WRU has ideals we've looked at."
-Hugh Morris

"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
-Carl Schurz

"There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them."
-Peretz Smolenskin

"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."
-Valentina Tereshkova

"People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible."
-Will Rogers

"Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them."
-Albert Schweitzer

"Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints."
-Naomi Wolf

"Finest ideals of the acting profession."
-Shirley Temple

"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms."
-Byron Paulson

"In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished."
-Pico Iyer

"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals."
-Ralph Bunche

"He was never a black-and-white embodiment of someone searching for ideals, but was human and fallible."
-Michael Musto

"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
-Henrik Ibsen

"We want to make sure we don't have to compromise our ideals."
-Bruce Becker

"Ideals are the worlds masters."
-Josiah Gilbert Holland

"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation."
-Johnny Hart