Ideals Quotes

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.

Our ideals are our better selves.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

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.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

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

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

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

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.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.