Quotes About Ideals

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

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

it is very hard for a liberal to maintain his smug pose of moral and rational superiority over traditional religious believers and other non-liberals if he admits that his ideals are just one set of ungrounded prejudices among others

You may see dreams, but you should go after the reality, not the dreams.

It's not just my body. I'm cold inside. Not disciplined properly. That's what it is. I still long to cling to warm flesh, like a baby, and I give in too quickly to sentimentality. Because I'm alone, I feel sorry for myself and envy people who have nice warm houses. At heart, I'm base and mean! Why can't I be thankful for independence and freedom to go where I choose? Why can't I hold on to my ideals and my pride?

It pained her deeply to realize Alysandir wasn't her romantic hero she had pegged him to be. In truth he was no more attainable than her dreams of Mr. Darcy. – Isobella Douglas

The ideal personality is embodied, in Mead's words, in "every thread of the social fabric–in the care of the young child, the games the children play, the songs the people sing, the political organization, the religious observance, the art and the philosophy." Other traits are ignored, discouraged, or if all else fails, ridiculed. What is the ideal in our culture?

I mean that a party can't be anything other than a distributor of favors in exchange for support, ideals are part of the furniture.

Gilberto lo dijo en el Campo: Nosotros siempre estamos armados con nuestros ideales. El 2 de octubre no teníamos otras armas. Solo anhelos e ideas que, para el gobierno, son más peligrosas que las balas. Una bala mata a un hombre. Una idea revolucionaria despierta a cientos o a miles de personas. • Raúl Álvarez Garín, del CNH

you will see . . . Gauguin and Bernard talk now of 'painting like children' – I would rather have that than 'painting like decadents'.

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful" ~ Carl Gustav Jung (1987-1961) as cited in Anthony Stevens

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Biron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

The Imperial Judiciary lives. It is instructive to compare this Nietzschean vision of us unelected, life-tenured judges—leading a Volk who will be "tested by following," and whose very "belief in themselves" is mystically bound up in their "understanding" of a Court that "speak[s] before all others for their constitutional ideals"—with the somewhat more modest role envisioned for these lawyers by the Founders.

My grand-daddy died fightin for it, my Dad was wounded in the war, my brother served in Korea and I did my duty in Nam. We've paid our dues and we done all we could for this country, but we didn't do it to turn America into no nigger heaven, pardon my saying so. And we'll do it again if we have to against those Commie rats and anybody else that don't like the way things are. That's the American way.' 'Amen

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

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.

You can prepare a list of the qualities you would want in your ideal partner and fall in love with someone totally opposite.

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.