Quotes About Ideals

Let Us Be Grateful Today we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

Western though is fixated on the gap between what is and what ought to be.

she kept religion and politics apart, putting the ideal of monarchy and of hereditary descent ahead of religion.

This country is founded on some very noble ideals but also some very big lies. One is that everyone has a fair chance at success. Another is that rich people have to be smart and hardworking or else they wouldn't be rich. Another is that if you're not rich, don't worry about it, because rich people aren't really happy. I am the white male living proof that all of that is garbage.

Reality, for orphans, is so often outdistanced by their ideals

I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this.

Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60s were a democratizing period.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

I believe we should all stay true to what we believe in, but having strong beliefs doesn't have to mean having a closed mind.

What disappoints us most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Politics gets nastier and more vicious with each passing year. It's not a parade of ideals or ethics any more. It's about celebrity, false promises and image.

In the world today ideals live but a moment in their purity, before the gathering hosts of darkness snuff out the gleaming spark. The Mystery School, however, remains unmoved. It does not bring light to man, man must bring his light to it.

Oi que series capaç de qualsevol cosa per conservar la teva tranquil·litat? Oi que ho sacrifiques tot, absolutament tot, a la teva manera de viure sense maldecaps, sense ideals?

Quando un rivoluzionario non è un poeta finisce per essere un dittatore o un burocrate, un traditore dei propri sogni...

Ma mère m'a gavé d'histoires d'amour idéal, c'est un lourd handicap que d'avoir des idéaux. - Pourquoi ? - Ça place la barre très haut. - Pour l'autre ? - Non, pour soi-même.

Would it be an ideologue or a lover?