Ideals Quotes

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

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

The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

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.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

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.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

One ever feels his twoness - 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.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

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.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.