Quotes on Ideals

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.