Quotes About Ideals

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," says Mould. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking, 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late teens.

We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

What is it with you freedom-loving Americans? he asked. Live free or die. I don't get it. I say, "Regulate me gently. I'd rather live.

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.

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

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

I love reform better than its modes.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

Maybe grown-ups weren't perfect, but they should be, her parents most of all. They should be cheerful, loving, patient, never sick and never tired. Fun too.

This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence.

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

Senator John McCain called Charlottesville "a confrontation between our better angels and our worst demons. White supremacists and neo-Nazis are, by definition, opposed to American patriotism and the ideals

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...

And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice

It is one of the foundational pillars of Abraham Lincoln—and of America itself. We're not simply a country of ideas; we're a country of ideals. What makes America exceptional aren't our weapons or our might. It's our principles and our continuing fight to live up to them. Faced with darkness, we must reach for the light.

It was not enough for knights simply to love and fight well; they needed to sacrifice everything for the highest ideals, such as a Grail quest.