Ideal Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Quotations, tags: ideal, idealism, idealist, idealists, ideals- An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.~ Sidney J. Harris
- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.~ Henry Ford
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing. ~ H. L. Mencken
- A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. ~ Pir Vilayat Khan
- Don’t let the alarm clock of life wake you from the dream of your ideals. ~ Irisa Hail
- Don’t use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.” ~ Henrik Ibsen
- Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
- I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.~ Carl Sandburg
- Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. ~ John Galsworthy
- Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.~ William F. Buckley
- Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.~ Mikhail Bakunin
- Idealist: a cynic in the making.~ Irving Layton
- Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.~ Emma Goldman
- Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. ~ Carl Schurz
- Ideals are the world’s masters. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
- If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.~ Anne Frank
- Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. ~ Albert Camus
- It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. ~ Karl Kraus
- No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. ~ Winston Churchill
- Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.~ Joseph Joubert
- Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Our ideals are our better selves. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
- Some people never have anything except ideals. ~ E.W. Howe
- The actual well seen is ideal. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ~ Stanley Baldwin
- The enemy of idealism is zealotry.~ Neil Kinnock
- The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.~ Malcolm De Chazal
- There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. ~ Calvin Coolidge
- The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.~ James Russell Lowell
- The true measure of a man is the height of his ideals, the breadth of his sympathy, the depth of his convictions, and the length of his patience.~ Author Unknown
- What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. ~ Francis Herbert Hedge
- When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. ~ John Oliver Hobbes
- When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination. ~ Ellen Key
- Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover
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