Quotes About Ideals

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

The utopia of knowledge would be to open up the non-conceptual with concepts, without making it their equal.

Where two pieties—feminism and multiculturalism—come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in practical fashion.

The leaders of thought and of action grope their way forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly, that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of value only as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals.

Enid thought everybody was like her, they just didn't know it yet. And that someday they would come around, realizing what fools they'd always been by clinging to ideals that got them nowhere. Enid