Quotes About Ideals

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.

A liberation movement is doomed once it stops to haggle over nuances of good and evil.

In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

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

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

The truth is that when we really begin to do this, we're going to be continually humbled. There's not going to be much room for the arrogance that holding on to ideals can bring. The arrogance that inevitably does arise is going to be continually shot down by our own courage to step forward a little further.

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

The trouble with the world is, Frankie, that there are too many ideals and too little horse sense . . . Human beings don't like peace and good will and everybody loving everybody else . . . they're not made like that. Human beings like eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give 'em half a chance.

You know that, Ted. It's the most precious thing we have. Loyalty between us, between protector and serf, between a man and his mistress. Maybe, Benteley said slowly, a person should be loyal to an ideal.

The American daydream, what made Us great: make a concession, take a stand.

It needs to be borne in mind that there are always, and inevitably, two sides to the revolutionary coin. The first is negative and destructive, and leads to the drive to undermine the beliefs, values and institutions of the old order, which must be destroyed before a new one can be created. The second component of the revolutionary vision is positive and utopian—the image of a future that condemns the present and encapsulates the idea of a redemptive fate.

his ideal of living.

We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.

I think our agenda is very aspirational.

People see citizens who are anti-war anti-American or anti-patriotic and that's so wrong.