Quotes About Ideals

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Good books are the warehouses of ideals.

A revolutionary must have solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfill his glorious revolutionary task.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Bohemian and long on ideals, especially where the necessity of living up to them was someone else's.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.

In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who share his beliefs, perhaps even a hero. To those that oppose his philosophy, he is a beast, a creature, one of a thousand unspeakable demons clashing over an ideal.

Die Idee der Schönheit ist die Idee der unendlichen Traurigkeit; die Idee dessen, was hätte sein können.

There should be some to watch and keep alive all beautiful beliefs...

It was not until years afterward that I came upon Tolstoy's phrase "the snare of preparation," which he insists we spread before the feet of young people, hopelessly entangling them in a curious inactivity at the very period of life when they are longing to construct the world anew and to conform it to their own ideals.

Prostitute. Whore. What did they really mean anyway? Only words. Words trailing their streamers of judgment. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots-- prostitute, housewife, saint-- like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I

The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals.

The fact that my body is presented as an unrealistic ideal of 'beauty' to the world doesn't stop me - or most other models - from feeling unsure about ourselves.

The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Kerala has always evoked the curiosity of the world at large. We have contributed immensely in enriching such ideals which an egalitarian world would cherish to uphold.

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.