Quotes About Ideals

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

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

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.