Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeIdeals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. Votes: 3
Tony BlairIdeals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. Votes: 3
Laurell K. HamiltonIdeals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Votes: 3
Walter LippmannIdeals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch. Votes: 3
S. D GordonFailure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. Votes: 2
Jawaharlal NehruAmerica's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. Votes: 2
Steve BuyerWhen you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. Votes: 2
Marian AndersonA man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Votes: 2
Herbert ReadI must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. Votes: 2
Anne FrankFrom my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities. Votes: 0
Fatos NanoThose were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service. Votes: 0
Barbara CastleThe majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is display. Votes: 0
Emma Goldman... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Votes: 0
Max EhrmannAll men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouMy music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. Votes: 0
Gordon GettyNational events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events. Votes: 0
Jane AddamsThe highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. Votes: 0
Penn JilletteWe are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. Votes: 0
Harold NicolsonWe are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. Votes: 0
Harold NicolsonAct with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life. Votes: 0
Jawaharlal NehruMutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. Votes: 0
Norman LammI can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. Votes: 0
Anne FrankAmerican power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate. Votes: 0
Joseph NyeI remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357. Votes: 0
Mehdi KarroubiWhen a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. Votes: 0
Pearl Mary Teresa CraigieThe challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in. Votes: 0
Gretchen CarlsonI've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me. Votes: 0
John KrasinskiDon't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' Votes: 0
Henrik IbsenYou have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves. Votes: 0
Kevin DrumDestroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyDear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals! Votes: 0
Pope FrancisWestern women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. Votes: 0
Naomi WolfEvery American, including our president, represents that we uphold the highest ideals of the world. Votes: 0
Mike PenceI felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold, Votes: 0
Andrew SullivanThe only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals. Votes: 0
Tony RobbinsI see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. Votes: 0
Isadora DuncanIt is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. Votes: 0
Mark TwainSome men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltA child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. Votes: 0
Karl KrausI loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Votes: 0
Ayn RandIt's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage. Votes: 0
Stuart Pearson WrightPlease go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonDisneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America. Votes: 0
Walt DisneyFalse ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them. Votes: 0
Franz WerfelIt is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man. Votes: 0
Isadora DuncanSetting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. Votes: 0
Ron PaulIt is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfWhen the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. Votes: 0
Clara ZetkinLook to the Lord and not to the world for your ideas and ideals about men and women. Votes: 0
Sheri L. DewIf one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low. Votes: 0
Charles LudlamYou are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low. Votes: 0
Charles LudlamIT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS. Votes: 0
Emma WatsonOr you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. Votes: 0
Steve EarleThe world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies. Votes: 0
Emily RatajkowskiMr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. Votes: 0
Edwin MarkhamThe progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaAmerican ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied. Votes: 0
Calvin CoolidgeThe ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinOne has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter. Votes: 0
Olive SchreinerPeace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. Votes: 0
Oswald SpenglerThe egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest. Votes: 0
John Buchanan RobinsonDo not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. Votes: 0
Charlotte M. MasonDo not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. Votes: 0
Charlotte MasonThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. Votes: 0
Woodrow WilsonTomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. Votes: 0
Walt DisneyHistory's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell. Votes: 0
Ken AkamatsuThe high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind. Votes: 0
Jackson BrowneFind people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. Votes: 0
Jonathan SacksOne great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. Votes: 0
Susan NeimanThe trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with. Votes: 0
Brennan ManningThe ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonWissenschaft steht im Dienste eines Ideals oder im Dienste einer herrschenden Gruppe.
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