Quotes About Ideals

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

If you don't believe in winning, you don't believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

There's no way in the world that the United States does not want to spread democratic ideals, but the first thing we have to do is that which is the interest of our security.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

In his 2014 book about Father Dmitry, The Last Man in Russia, journalist Oliver Bullough quotes an atheist saying that after hearing the priest preach, "the immorality of Soviet society, its inhumanity and corruption, its lack of a moral code or credible ideals, means that Christ's teaching comes through to those who it reaches as a shining contrast.

Rather, it is a warning to avoid turning inspiration into fetish and tradition into dogma; it is an admonition to never reduce the spiritual realm to the narrow borders of your own perceptions, prejudices, and ideals.

C'est fini, Gary Cooper. Fini pour toujours. Fini, l'Américain tranquille, sûr de lui et de son droit, qui est contre les méchants, toujours pour la bonne cause, et qui fait triompher la justice et gagne toujours à la fin. Adieu l'Amérique des certitudes.

This African revolutionary was no different from all the other revolutionaries who inscribed the words 'liberty,' 'justice' and 'progress' on their flags and then went on to kill, to torture and to suppress all living liberty in the name of their noble and human goal.

Let us be bold and proclaim the truth to the elders of these young men, to their moral guides, to their religious and secular leaders, to the Churches, the great thinkers, the leaders of socialism; these living riches, these treasures of heroism you held in your hands; for what are you squandering them? What ideal have you held up to the devotion of these youths so eager to sacrifice themselves? Their mutual slaughter!

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.

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

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

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, amaçs?zl?k suçtur. Hepimizin idealleru olmal? ve hepsini baÅŸaramasak da onlar? gercekleÅŸtirmek için uÄŸraÅŸmal?y?z. Onlar olmasa hayat çekilmez olurdu. Oysa yaÅŸam? muhteÅŸem k?lan ÅŸey ideallerimizdir

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, amaçs?zl?k suçtur. Hepimizin idealleri olmal? ve hepsini baÅŸaramasak da onlar? gerçekleÅŸtirmek için uÄŸraÅŸmal?y?z. Onlar olmasa hayat çekilmez olurdu. Oysa yaÅŸam? muhteÅŸem k?lan ÅŸey ideallerimizdir

What's he doing?" Richard asked unnecessarily. "Composing a heroic ballad based on your adventures," John supplied. "I daresay." "Well, I don't want to hear it," Richard said, swinging up into the saddle. "The saints preserve us from any more of his Court of Love ideals.

But utopias always lead to dystopias, and dictators invariably become gods who demand daily worship.

Ah! meu caro Rubião, isto de política pode ser comparado à paixão de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo; não falta nada, nem o discípulo que nega, nem o discípulo que vende. Coroa de espinhos, bofetadas, madeiros, e afinal morre-se na cruz das ideias, pregado pelos cravos da inveja, da calúnia e da ingratidão.

Não, Bentinho, disse ele, basta um alopata; em todas as escolas se morre. Demais, foram ideias da mocidade, que o tempo levou; converto-me à fé de meus pais. A alopatia é o catolicismo da medicina...