Quotes with ideals

  • Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
  • America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
  • Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
  • Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
  • Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
  • Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
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  • Karl Kraus A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Agnes Repplier Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Marianne Moore War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Billy Bragg All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Adam Schiff An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Castle Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bernard Bailyn At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 237
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Henrik Ibsen Don't use that foreign word ''ideals.'' We have that excellent native word ''lies.''
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Bill Frist From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Les Brown Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Anne Frank I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Anne Frank I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Carl Schurz 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.
    Source: Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Ideals are the worlds masters.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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