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Ideals are the world's masters. -- J. G. Holland
Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. -- David Ayer
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent. -- Brad Pitt
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. -- Dennis Potter
Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption. -- Vanna Bonta
Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. -- Oscar Wilde
Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. -- Tony Blair
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. -- Walter Lippmann
Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch. -- S. D Gordon
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. -- Albert Schweitzer
Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do. -- Lawrence Fagg
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. -- Stephen Young
Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination. -- Thomas S. Monson
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. -- Carl Schurz
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. -- Ellen Glasgow
Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes, wives would be happier, and husbands would probably be more kind" (Gospel Ideals, p. 475). -- David O. McKay
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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. -- Michelle Shocked
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. -- Carl Schurz
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. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
Our ideals are our better selves. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. -- Steve Buyer
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. -- Marian Anderson
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. -- Herbert Read
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. -- Anne Frank
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. -- Alfred North Whitehead
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. -- John Doolittle
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. -- William Osler
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. -- Walt Disney
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. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. -- Steven Spielberg
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. -- Samuel Ullman
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. -- Walt Disney
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. -- George Takei
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. -- Ron Lewis
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me. -- Justin Trudeau
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. -- Anne Frank
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. -- Cory Booker
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. -- Noam Chomsky
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another. -- Xi Jinping
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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. -- George Grosz
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. -- Joshua
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. -- Caroline Knapp
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. -- Barack Obama
Genius is talent provided with ideals. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Some people never have anything except ideals. -- E. W. Howe
Great principles, great ideals know no nationality. -- Marcus Garvey
Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does. -- Jeff Sharlet
Violence is the fear to other's ideals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. -- Doris Lessing
Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time. -- Jim Croce
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. -- Jean Rostand
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals. -- Eamon de Valera
Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. -- Haruki Murakami
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. -- Calvin Coolidge
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with. -- Rob Morrow
The man who fights for his ideals is alive. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. -- Israel Zangwill
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals. -- Ernest Becker
We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals. -- Samuel Beckett
American ideals are superior to countries all across the world. -- Mike Pence
Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world. -- Andrew Dominik
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They're inseparable. -- Jim Stengel
Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws. -- Brother Ali
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. -- Joseph Joubert
The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals. -- Ralph Nader
Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals. -- Alan Watts
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals. -- Gillian Jacobs
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. -- James Naismith
Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
...a man does not die for business, but for ideals. -- Adolf Hitler
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. -- Norman Douglas
Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. -- Kevyn Aucoin
From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. -- William James
The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks. -- Lin Yutang
It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals. -- Norbert Capek
The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals. -- Cliff Shaw
Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities. -- Fatos Nano
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible -- Will Rogers
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. -- George Bernard Shaw
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals. -- Sydney J. Harris
hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. -- Ralph Bunche
To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals. -- Susan Stebbing
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. -- Coco Chanel
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. -- Albert Schweitzer
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. -- Joseph Schumpeter
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. -- Joseph Schumpeter
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies. -- Elbert Hubbard
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. -- Gordon Getty
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service. -- Barbara Castle
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. -- Max Ehrmann
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. -- Maya Angelou
The majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is display. -- Emma Goldman
National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events. -- Jane Addams
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. -- Penn Jillette
In attaining our ideals,our means should be as pure as the end! -- Rajendra Prasad
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate. -- Joseph Nye
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. -- Anne Frank
We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists. -- Tina Fey
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. -- Norman Lamm
I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357. -- Mehdi Karroubi
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. -- Harold Nicolson
You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals. -- Roger McGough
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. -- Golda Meir
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. -- E. W. Howe
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. -- Harold Nicolson
I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me. -- John Krasinski
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. -- Axl Rose
Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes. -- Mike Klepper
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. -- Naomi Wolf

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